Greek and Latin Root Words

1. Foli – leaf (exfoliate, folio, portfolio) 2. Miss / Mitt – to send (transmit, missionary, missile) 3. Manu – hand (manual, manicure, emancipate) 4. Mal – bad (malevolent, malicious, malaria) 5. Gen – birth or origin (progeny, gender, genesis) 6. Geo / Terr – earth (geology, geometry, terrain) 7. Ped / Pod – foot (podiatrist, pedestal, centipede) 8. Aster / Stellar – star (asteroid, asterisk, constellation) 9. Chron / Temp – time (temporary, chronicles, chronic) 10. Aqua / Hydra – water (hydrophobia, hydraulic, Aquarius) 11. Mob / Mot – move (commotion, remote, immobile) 12. Cap – head (capricious, recapitulate, decapitate) 13. Mater / Pater – mother / father (patron, alma mater, matrix) 14. Ben / Bon – good (bona fide, bonanza, benevolent) 15. Ject / Jet – throw (injection, jettison, reject) 16. Flam / Pyro – fire (flamboyant, flammable, pyromania) 17. Prim / Prin / Proto – first (principle, protocol, primary) 18. Rota / Volv – turn (revolution, rotate, rotisserie) 19. Cor – heart (discord, cordial, record) 20. Rect / Reg – king (regal, regalia, regicide) 21. Mono / Uni – one (monastery, monotone, unison) 22. Bi / Du – two (biped, dialogue, duplicity) 23. Tri / Quad / Quint / Pent / Dec / Cent - three, four, five, five, ten, one hundred (trilogy, quadruped, quintuplet, pentagon, decapod, century) 24. Spec / Spic – look (spectacle, conspicuous, speculate) 25. Cor = heart (encourage, cordial, accord) 26. Graph / Gram = write (grammar, biography, cardiogram) 27. Carn / Corp = body (carnivore, esprit de corps, carnage) 28. Curr / Curs / Cours = run (currier, cursive, curriculum) 29. Cycl / Orb = roundness (cyclone, Cyclops, cycle) 30. Min = small (minuscule, mince, miniature) 31. Phon = sound (homophone, symphony, aphonia) 32. Arch = ruler (archenemy, anarchy, archetype) 33. Anthro / Homo = man (homicide, anthropology, humane) 34. Dict = Speak (diction, dictionary, contradict) 35. Port = carry (export, deportment, deportation) 35. Sym / Syn = together (synonym, symbiosis, symmetry) 36. Phil = love (bibliophile, philosophy, philanthropist)