Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes: A Comprehensive List, Exercises of Latin

Download Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes: A Comprehensive List and more Exercises Latin in PDF only on Docsity! Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, And Suffixes Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, And Suffixes a-, an- not, without, lacking -able capable of -aceous of or pertaining to adip- fat aero- air agri- field, soil ambi- both amyl- starch ante- before, ahead of time antho- flower anti- against, opposite aqu- water -ase forms names of enzymes auto- self bacter-, bactr- bacterium, stick, club bi- (Latin) two twice bi-, bio- (Greek) life, living -blast- sprout, germ, bud brev- short calor- heat carcin- cancer cardi- heart carn- meat, flesh carp- fruit carpal- wrist cata- breakdown, downward caud- tail -cell- chamber, small room centi- hundredth centr- center cephal- head cerebr- brain chel- claw chem- dealing with chemicals chlor- green co- with, together coel- hollow coll- glue coni- cone contra- against corp- body cort-, cortic- outer layer cotyl- cup counter- against crani- skull -cul-, -cule small, diminutive cuti- skin cyan- blue -cyst- sac, pouch, bladder cyt-, -cyte cell, hollow container Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, And Suffixes Scientific Root Words, Prefixes, And Suffixes de- away from, down deca- ten deci- tenth dendr- tree derm- skin di-, dipl- (Latin) two, double di-, dia- (Greek) through, across, apart du-, duo- two echin- spiny, prickly eco- house ecto- outside of -emia blood en-, endo-, ent- in, into, within entom- insects epi- upon, above, over erythro- red eu- well, good, true, normal flor- flower foli- leaf fract- break -gam- marriage gastr- stomach -gene- origin, birth -gest- carry, produce, bear gluc-, glyc- sweet, sugar gnath- jaw grav- heavy gymno- naked, bare gyn- female halo- salt -helminth- worm hem- blood hemi- half herb- grass, plants hetero- different, other hex- six hibern- winter hipp- horse hist- tissue holo- entire, whole homo- (Latin) man, human homo- (Greek) same, alike hort- garden hydr- water hyper- above, beyond over hypo- below, under, less -chthy- fish inter- within, inside intra- between iso- equal, same