Monday, December 8, 2014

Latin Roots Book Project: Word List

These are the roots and the words for the Latin roots book projects. 

All projects are due tomorrow, December 9.

  1. foli - leaf: foliage, bifoliate, portfolio, defoliant
  2.  manu - hand: manufacture, manuscript, manicure, manipulate
  3. mal - bad: malevolent, malicious, malady, malnutrition
  4. miss/mitt - to send: missive, transmit, missle, missionary
  5. gen - birth, origin: genesis, generation, gender, indigenous
  6. ped/pod - foot: pedel, pedestal, pedestrian, podiatrist
  7. stell - star: stellar, constellation, interstellar, stelliform
  8. aqua - water: aquarium, aquatic, aqueduct, Aquarius
  9. mob/mot - to move: motor, automobile, motivated, remote
  10. bene/bon - good: bonus, benediction, benefactor, benevolent
  11. cor - heart: courage, encourage, concord, discord
  12. cis - to cut: scissors, incision, incisors, precise
  13. cred - to believe; to trust: credit, incredible, credentials, credibility
  14. dict - to say: dictator, dictionary, predict, contradict
  15. fract/frag - to break: fraction, fragment, fragile, fracture
  16. mem - mindful: remember, memory, memorial, commemorate
  17. port - to carry: portable, import, transport, portfolio
  18. rupt - to break; to burst: erupt, interrupt, disrupt, rupture
  19. scrib - to write: scribble, prescribe, manuscript, inscription
  20. spect - to look at: spectator, specimen, inspector, suspect

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