GREEK and LATIN for basi - at or near the beginning chrono - time basilo - royal clado - branch Dinosaurologists bathy - deep claudio - closed or father-like batrachus - frog, frog-like cleid - key, clavicle batus - bat-like cleithro - lattice a,ar,an - not, without bi - two clid (i, o) - key ab - from bolito - fungus-like, lumpy clino - lean, slant abricto - wide awake bonus - good, honest clon (o) - horn acantho - thorny borea - northwind cnem - tibia, tibia-like acri (acr-, acer) - sharp boro (boreas) - northern cnid - nettle-like acrita - undistinguishable bothrio - pitted, grooved, excavated cocco - grain acro - top, extremity brach (i,a,o) - arm cochlea (o) - snail, snail-like actino(actin,actini) - radiating,fibrous brachy - short coelo (a) - hollow ad - to branch - gill colo - docked, hornless adeno - gland brevi(s) - short columbi - dove or pigeon-like ala, ali - wing bronto - thunder compago - connection alb - white bulla - bubble compso - pretty alio - other buno - mound, hill concavo - hollow allo - strange, different, exotic caeca (caecus) - blind, invisible condyl - knuckle alti - tall, high caecili - lizard cono - cone, opposed to ambi - both, around, like campus (kampus) - sea monster copro - fecal ambulo - moving, walking cen (caen) - recent corn (is) - horn amnio - membrane cala - reed-like corytho - helmet amphi - on both sides, paired calci - calcium carbonate crani - head ana - up, back, again camara -vaulted chamber, chambered craspedo - edge anato - duck-like camp - level field crassi - thick, fat anchi - close campto - flexible cratero - bowl-shaped andry - male campy - bent creo - flesh angio - blood vessel, covered canth(us) - spiked, horned crosso - cross-shaped, ridge angui - snake-like capit - head cruro - leg angusti - sharp capri (capra) - goat crypto - hidden ankylo - rigid, fused, bent carchar - saw-like cteno (a) - comb-like ante - before carno - flesh, meat cyan (o) - dark blue anthraco - charcoal carpus - wrist cyclop - one-eyed anthro(po) - human-like cata - down, by cyno - dog, dog-like anti - against catharti - pure, cleansed, purged cystis - bladder, pouch apato - deceptive caudio - tail dacent - pointed apsid - wheel, arch, arched cavi - hollow dactyl - finger, digit archaeo (archi, archeo) - ancient cell (cello) - hidden dasy - densely covered archi - first ceno - empty dect (is) - biter arcto - bear, north centi - hundred deino - terrible ardea - heron, heron-like centro(um) - center, sharp point delphy (-i, -o) - womb argyro - silver cephalo (us) - head delta - fourth, D-shaped arm - armour cer(a) - horn, horned dent - tooth (also see ‘dont’) arthro - jointed, joint cerco (al) - tail derm - skin artio - even, complete cetio (us) - whale, whale-like deutero - second, secondary arvi (arvus) - land, plain chaeto - long dexio - right-sided, turned to the rt. aspid - stinging, venomous, asp-like chal - copper, copper-colored di, diplo - two, double astato - unstable chama - gaping dia - through astra (o) - star-like chasmo - ravine dicraeo - forked ato - to, at, near cheiro (us) - hand digit - finger, toe atrio - cavity, chamber chelo (a) - claw dira - terrible aulo - flute, pipe chelys (-a) - tortoise, tortoise-like discus - dish-like austral - southern dis (so) - opposite, absence of auto - self, same one doco (us) - beam, bar avi - bird chir - hand dolicho - long ax - axis chondr (o, al) - cartilage don, den, dent, dont - tooth bactra - from Bactria chorda - chord dosi - back balan - acorn, penis chromis (-o) - color draco - dragon-like baro - heavy, pressure dromaeo - running grapto - painted, drawn lagus - rabbit, hare dromiceio - emu-like gravi - heavy lambda - L-shaped dryo - oak grui - crane-like lampro - bright, shining drypto - wounding gulum - throat lana - woolly dunkleo - dark gymno - naked lania - tearing, slicing duo - two gypso - gypsum, plaster leio - smooth dura - hard gyri (o) - ring, circle, spiral lepido (lepo, lepis) - scale, flake dynamo - dynamic hadro - thick, heavy lepto - slender e - missing, not haemo - blood lestes - robber echino - spiked haleco - perch-like leuco - white ecto - outer hali - breath or holy lingua - tongue edapho - bottom, ground halos - salt lipo - fat elaphro - light haltico - nimble liss - smooth elasmo - plated haplo - single lith - stone electro - electric, sun-like helico - helix, spiral logus - speaking, discourse eleuth (o,a) - free helo - nail lopho - ridged, crested elmi - foot hemi - half lucun - pit, lake emy - tortoise-like hepta - liver lun (a) - moon, crescent-shaped en - made of, belonging to, cause hespero - western luro - tail enanti (o, os)- opposite hetero - mixed, different lycaen, lyco - wolf-like endo (ento) - inner hex - six lycia - destroyer entero - intestine hippo - horse macro - large ent (o) - within, inner histo - tissue maia - good mother eo - dawn holo - whole, entire mal - bad epi - above, on homalo - even, level, ordinary mani (-o) - hand eptero - intestine homeo (homo) - same, like, similar mantis - diviner, prophet eri - early horridus - horrible margin (-o) - border ery - character, -ness hyaen - pig, pig-like mass (-o) - of considerable size erythro - red hyal (o, i) - glassy, clear masto - breast, nipple eu - true hybo - hump, hump-backed medi - middle eury - broad, wide hydro- water mega (-lo) - huge ex (extra)- out of, from, former, not hylo, hylaeo-matter,wood, woodland meio - less fabro - structure, construction hypo - under, beneath melano - dark felid - cat hypsi - height, high meristi (-os) - divided fenestra - window hyraco - shrew mouse-like meso - middle foramin (-men) - hole, boring hystrico, hystrine - porcupine-like meta - after, behind, beyond formes - form Ibero - Spanish metridio - measured, regular, long fossa - pit, cavity ichthy (o) - fish,fish-like metro (i) - measured, regular, long galeo - dogfish, shark ictus - blow, thrust micro - tiny galerix - capped iguano - iguana-like mictus - urinating gall (i) - chicken ilio - pelvis, pelvic mimi (us) - mimic gast (er, ro) - stomach in - not, without mio - less, minor gen (ys, us, esio) - birth, race, kind iniom - shoulder mixo - combined gena - cheek, chin inter - between mochlo - bar geo - earth, rock intra - within, between mono - single gephyro - bridge irnis - bird mormyr - mocking gerano - crane-like ischia - pelvis, pelvic morpho (-a) - shaped, form giganto - very large iso - equal, uniform morti - death gingy - hinged, jointed istio - performing a specific action mose - by form of glossa (i) - tongue kentro - prickly mucro - pointed glypto - carved, engraved kera - horn multi - many gnathus - jaw krito - chosen mur (i) - brine gompho - tooth, peg kyphus - hump-backed mus - mouse-like gonio - corner, angle, knee labia (-o) - lips, folds mycto - nose, sneering goyo - decorated labyrintho - complex, tortuous myelo - narrow grac (i) - slender, graceful lacer - torn, mangled myo - muscle grad (e, us) - walking laco - brief, terse myris - countless grandi - great lact - mild myrm - ant-like graph - written, to write laevi - lucky mys - mouse-like mysti - mysterious perisso - uneven, odd raptor - thief, robber myzon - sucking perl - pearly rect - straight nano - dwarf petali (-o) - petal-like, leaf-like remi - oar necro - dead petro - stone, rock-like rex - king nemo - thread phaedro (a) - gleaming rhabdo - rod neo - new phage (o) - one that eats, -eating rhampho - narrow nephelus - cloud-like, cloudy phalangia - toes rheo - to flow nephto - kidney phenaco - imposter rhino - nose neuro - nerve phila (o) - -loving rhizo - root noct - night phleb - vein rhynch - beak, snout nodo - lumpy, nodular phleg - inflammed, hot, clammy rostri - beak notho - spurius phobo - fearsome rumin - throat noto - back pholis (-d) - scale sacco - sack-like nuc - nut phon - voice, sound saggita - arrow nud - naked phora (-os, -id) - -shaped, bearer salinas - salt nycho - clawed photo - light salto - leaping, jumping myct (-io) - night phyllo - leaf-like sapro - putrid, decayed o - lacking phylo - tribe sarco - fleshy occi - western physis - form sauro, saurus - reptile, lizard oid - appearance, form phyto - plant scaphus - boat-shaped oligo - few, small pical - magpie-like scelid (-o) - leg, limb omma - eye pici - woodpecker -like scin (etes) - skin, skink-like omo - shoulder, raw pina - nut-like, pine-like, plant-like sciuro - squirrel-like onchy - claw pisto - female, female repro. organ sclero - hard onycho - crawling pithe (cus, etc) - ape-like scolo (i) - thorny, thorn-like or bent oo - egg placo, plateo, platy - flat, oar-like scut - shield ophia (o) - snake-like planti - sole secerno - divided ophthalmo - eye pleio, plio - more, much sect - to cut opistho - behind, posterior plesi (o) - near segno - slow opsis - appearance, form, vision pletho - full seismo - earth-shaking oreo - mountain pleura (o) -side selach - cartilaginous, shark-like ornis, ornitho - bird plo - plated, armoured selas (-en) - bright ornate (o) - decorated pneumo - air sella - saddle-like ortho - straight, right, correct pnoi - breath semi - half oss - bone pod (a) - foot sept - wall osteo - bone pola, poly - many seti - bristle ostraco - hard, shell pore - passage sigill - seal, sign otic - ear-related porta - gate silvi - forest oudeno - nothing, non-existant preno - sloping sino - Chinese ourano - brave prion - saw-like siren - alluring, seductive ovi - egg pro, proto - in front of, before solen - channel, pipe oxus - sharp, keen proct - anus sonia - sound, sounding oxy - sharp, keen, pungent pro, proto - before, preceeding sparass - ripped, torn pachy - thick psammo - sand, sand-like sperm - seed paedo - child-like pseudo - false sphen (i,o) - wedge-shaped paleo - ancient psittaco (a) - parrot-like spino - (ax) - spine, spiny pan, panto - all, all parts ptero (-a,s,ys,n) - wing, winged spondyl - vertebra, spine, backbone para - parallel, like, beside pthalmus - inner chamber squal - rough, scaly passeri - sparrow-like ptilo - soft feather stas (is) - standing, stopped path - disease ptych - fold stego (-us) - roof, roofed patri (-c) - father pus - foot stella - star pauci - few, little pycno - thick, dense steneo - narrow ped, pod, pes - foot pyg (o,e,us) - rump stenotes - finger peloro - monster pyri - pear stephus - crown pelto - shield, armour pyro - fire stereo - twin pelyco - bowl, pelvis quadri (-o,a) - four stero - solid penta - five rachi - spine steth - breast, chest pera - through, by, by means of radio - ray, rayed stheno - strong peri - akin to, all around, about ramus - branch stome (-a) - mouth straci - elongate tremata - perforate (hole) strati - layered tri - three strepto - reversed tribo - three-part division stroph - twisted trichia - hairy struthio - ostrich-like troo - gnawing styl (-o, op) - type trop - turning straco - spiked trophy - nutrition sub - under tryma - hole, hole-like suchus - crocodile-like tubercul - swelling, pimpled super - over tylo - knob, lumpy, swollen supra - over, above tymp (ano) - drum-like sym,syn, syno - together, fused typha - cattail-like syringo - pipe typo - image, impression tachy - swift, rapid tyranno - tyrant tact - touch tyro - cheese taen (io, ia) - ribbon-like ultra - beyond tala (r) - basket unguli - hoof tany - stretched out uni - one taph - ditch, trench, tomb uro (us) - tail, tall tapino - humble, low ursus - bear, bear-like tarbo - alarming vara - bent, crooked tars - foot, ankle vaso - vessel teinuro - extended venta - passage tel, telo - wheel, distant, end velox, veloci - fast teleo - perfect, complete, final ventra - belly telico - final vermi - worm tely - far off, op. over long distance vertebron - jointed temno - cutting or ring-like vesicul - blister tenonto - held, tenacious villi - shaggy tenui - thin vita - life terat - marvel, monster vitr - glassy terrestri - land volu - rolled, wrapped tethys - marine (wife of Oceanus) vora - to devour tetra - four vulpa - fox thalam - chamber xantho - yellow thalasso - sea xena (o) - strange, foreign theco - sheath, covering xero - dry thelo - suckling, nipple xiph - sword-like therio - breast xylon - wood therizino - scythe-like zephyr - west wind therm - warm, heat zeugo - strap, loop thero - beast zoo(n) - animal thescelo - beautiful zygo - yoke, yoked, paired thetica - positive, affirmative zymo - ferment, leaven tholus - dome thyestes - cannibal thylac(o) - sack, pouch thyreo - shield thyris -shield-or door-shapedopening tillo - plucking, tearing titano - giant tomo - to cut tono - tone top - head, face toro - bull-like toxo - bow-shaped trach - neck, windpipe trachy - rough tragul - goat-like