Greek and Latin Roots

• Bio - Life, living things
• Chron - time
• Dem - people
• Geo - earth
• Graph - to write
• Logy - study of
• meter - measure
• micro - small
• phobia - fear
• phon - sound
• photo - light
• tele - far
• Ject - to throw
• Spec - See
• Duct, duct - to lead
• Scrib, script - write
• Grad - step
• form - shape
• flex, flect - bend or curve
• lit - letter
• Rupt - break
• ques, quir - ask
• tain - hold
• Ped - foot
• Prefix - always comes at the beginning of a word and can change the meaning of a word
• Suffix - always comes at the end of a word and changes the meaning of a word
• Root Word - holds the most basic meaning of any word and is what is left when you remove all the prefixes and suffixes
• Morphology - morph meaning change, -ology meaning study of, Morphology means the study of the changing of words
• Lexicon - list of roots and words that a person has in his or her brain ready to use
• Derivation - the process of making words out of other words
• Denotation - the textbook definition of a term
• Connotation - the intellectual (and or) emotional interpretation of a term