Greek and Latin Stems:

The keys to your vocabulary

Greek Root Word Stemsastro - starbio - lifechrom - colorchrono - timederm - skingeo - earth

hydro - waterhypno - sleeplith - stonelogue - wordlogo - reasonmicro - small

Latin Root Word Stems• act – to do

• anim – life• arm – weapon• art – craft• cent - one

hundred• cess – to go• corp - body• circum – around• cred – to believe• equ – equal

• flu- to flow• grad – degree• hom – man• jur - law• lev – to lift• medic – to heal• noc – night• nox – harm• ord – to put in order• ped – foot• rupt – to break

Prefixesauto - selfbene - goodante - beforeanti - againstim – notbi – twocon – togetherde – undodis – oppositetri – threesyn – togethersym - with

inter – betweenintra – withinintro - beginmal – wrongmis – badnon - oppositepost - afterpre – beforesemi - halfsub – undersuper – overun - notextra - outside

Suffixes

able - able to beage - processant - one whocle - smalldom - state of

er - one whoesque - likeess - femaleful - full oflogy - study of