PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES
| a-; an- ab- -able ac- -aceous acou-; acous- ad- adip- aero- agri- -al alb- alg-; -algia alto- ambi- ameb- amni- amphi-; ampho- amyl- ana- andro- anemo- ang- angi- ante- anter- antho- anti- anthropo- -ap-; -aph- apo-; ap- aqu- archaeo- -ary; -arium arteri- arthr- -ase aster-; astr- -ate ather- -ation atmo- audi- aur- auto- bacter-; bactr- barb- baro- bath- bene- bi- bi-; bio- -blast- brachi- brachy- brady- branchi- brev- bronch- | not; without; lacking; deficient away from; out from capable of to; toward of or pertaining to hear to; toward gland fat air field; soil having the character of white pain high both change; alternation fetal membrane both starch up; back; again man; masculine wind choke; feel pain blood vessel; duct before; ahead of time front flower against; opposite man; human touch away from water primitive; ancient denotes a place for something artery joint; articulation forms names of enzymes star verb form - the act of... fatty deposit noun form - the act of... vapor hear ear self bacterium; stick; club beard weight depth; height well; good (Latin) two; twice (Greek) life; living sprout; germ; bud arm short slow fin short windpipe |
| cac- | bad |
| calor- | heat |
| capill- | hair |
| capit- | head |
| carcin- | cancer |
| cardi- | heart |
| carn- | meat; flesh |
| carp- | fruit |
| carpal- | wrist |
| cata- | breakdown; downward |
| caud- | tail |
| -cell- | chamber; small room |
| cen-; -cene | now; recent |
| cente- | pierce |
| centi- | hundredth |
| centr- | center |
| cephal- | head |
| cerat- | horn |
| cerebr- | brain |
| cervic- | neck |
| chel- | claw |
| chem- | dealing with chemicals |
| chir- | hand |
| chlor- | green |
| chondr- | cartilage |
| chrom-; -chrome | color |
| chron- | time |
| -chym- | juice |
| -cid-; -cis- | cut; kill; fall |
| circa-; circum- | around; about |
| cirru- | hairlike curls |
| co- | with; together |
| cocc- | seed; berry |
| coel- | hollow |
| coll- | glue |
| coni- | cone |
| contra- | against |
| corp- | body |
| cort-; cortic- | outer layer |
| cosmo- | world; order; form |
| cotyl- | cup |
| counter- | against |
| crani- | skull |
| cresc-; cret- | begin to grow |
| crypt- | hidden; covered |
| -cul-; -cule s | mall; diminutive |
| cumul- | heaped |
| cuti- | skin |
| cyan- | blue |
| -cycle; cycl- | ring; circle |
| -cyst- | sac; pouch; bladder |
| cyt-; -cyte | cell; hollow container |
| dactyl- de- deca- deci- deliquesc- demi- dendr- dent- derm- di-; dipl- di-; dia- dia- digit- din- dis- dorm- dors- du-; duo- -duct dynam- dys- ec- echin- eco- ecto- -elle -emia en-; endo-; ent- -en encephal- enter- entom- -eous epi- -err- erythro- -escent eso- eu- eury- ex- extra- | finger away from; down ten tenth become fluid half tree tooth skin (Latin) two; double (Greek) through; across; apart (Latin) day finger; toe terrible apart; out sleep back two lead power bad; abnormal; difficult out of; away from spiny; prickly house outside of small blood in; into; within made of brain intestine; gut insects nature of; like upon; above; over wander; go astray red becoming inward; within; inner well; good; true; normal widen out of; away from beyond; outside |
| -fer- ferro- fibr- -fid; fiss- -flect; -flex flor- flu-; fluct- foli- fract- -gam- gastr- geo- -gen; -gine -gene- -gest- -glen- -glob- gloss- gluc-; glyc- glut- gnath- -gon -grad- -gram; grav- -gross- gymno- gyn- gyr- -hal-; -hale halo- hapl- hecto- -helminth- hem- hemi- hepar-; hepat- herb- hetero- hex- hibern- hidr- hipp- hist- holo- homo- homo- hort- hydr- hygr- hyper- hyph- hypno- hypo- hyster- | bear; carry; produce iron fiber; thread split; divided into bend flower flux flow leaf break marriage stomach land; earth producer; former origin; birth carry; produce; bear eyeball ball; round tongue sweet; sugar buttock jaw angle; corner step graph record; writing heavy thick naked; bare female ring; circle; spiral breathe; breath salt simple hundred worm blood half liver grass; plants different; other six winter sweat horse tissue entire; whole (Latin) man; human (Greek) same; alike garden water moist; wet above; beyond; over weaving; web sleep below; under; less womb; uterus |
| -iac -iasis -ic ichthy- ign- in-; in-; in- -ine infra- inter- intra- -ism iso- -ist -itis -ium -kary- kel- kerat- kilo- kine- lachry- lact- lat- leio- -less leuc-; leuk- lign- lin- lingu- lip- lith-; -lite loc- -log- -logist -logy lumin- -lys-; -lyt-; -lyst | person afflicted with disease disease; abnormal condition (adjective former) fish fire not to; toward; into very; thoroughly of or pertaining to below; beneath between within; inside a state or condition equal; same person who deals with... inflammation; disease refers to a part of the body cell nucleus tumor; swelling horn thousand move tear milk side smooth without white; bright; light wood line tongue fat stone; petrifying place word; speech one who studies... study of... light decompose; split; dissolve |
| macr- malac- malle- mamm- marg- mast- med- meg- mela-; melan- -mer mes- met-; meta- -meter; -metry micro- milli- mis- mito- mole- mono- mort- -mot- morph- multi- mut- my- myc- mycel- myria- moll- nas- necr- nemat- neo- nephro- -ner- neur- noct-; nox- -node -nom-; -nomy non- not- nuc- | large soft hammer breast border; edge breast middle million; great black; dark part middle; half; intermediate between; along; after measurement small; millionth thousandth wrong; incorrect thread mass one; single death move shape; form many change muscle fungus threadlike many soft nose corpse; dead thread new; recent kidney moist; liquid nerve night knot ordered knowledge; law not back center |
| ob- ocul- oct- odont- -oid olf- oligo- -oma omni- onc- oo- opthalm- opt- orb- -orium; -ory ornith- orth- oscu- -osis oste- oto- -ous ov- oxy- pachy- paleo- palm- pan- par-; para- path-; -pathy -ped- -ped- pent- per- peri- permea- phag- pheno- -phil- phon-; -phone -phore; pher- photo- phren- phyc- phyl- -phyll physi- phyt-; -phyte pino- pinni- plan- plasm-; -plast- platy- pleur- pneumo- -pod poly- por- port- post- pom- pre- prim- pro- proto- pseudo- psych- pter- pulmo- puls- pyr- | against eye eight tooth form; appearance smell few; little abnormal condition; tumor all mass; tumor egg eye eye circle; round; ring place for something bird straight; correct; right mouth abnormal condition bone ear full of egg sharp; acid; oxygen thick old; ancient broad; flat all beside; near; equal disease; suffering foot child five through around pass; go eat show loving; fond of sound bear; carry light mind; diaphragm seaweed; algae related group leaf nature; natural qualities plant drink feather roaming; wandering form; formed into flat lung; rib; side lungs; air foot many; several opening carry after; behind fruit before; ahead of time first forward; favoring; before first; primary false; deceptive mind having wings or fins lung drive; push heat; fire |
| quadr- quin- radi- re- rect- ren- ret- rhag-; -rrhage rhe-; -rrhea rhin- rhiz- rhodo- roto- rubr- sacchar- sapr- sarc- saur- schis-; schiz- sci- scler- -scop- -scribe; -script semi- sept- -septic sess- sex- -sis sol- solv- som-; somat-; -some somn- son- spec-; spic- -sperm- -spher- spir-; -spire -spor- stat-; -stasis stell- sten- stern- stom-; -stome strat- stereo- strict- styl- sub- super-; sur- sym-; syn- | four five ray again; back right; correct kidney net; made like a net burst forth flow nose root rose wheel red sugar rotten flesh lizard split; divide know hard look; device for seeing write half; partly partition; seven infection; putrefaction sit six condition; state sun loosen; free body sleep sound look at seed ball; round breathe seed standing; placed; staying stars narrow chest; breast mouth layer solid; 3-dimensional drawn tight pillar under; below over; above; on top together |
| tachy- tarso- tax- tele- telo- terr- tetr- thall- -the-; -thes- -thel- -therm- -tom- toxico- top- trache- trans- tri- trich- -trop- -troph- turb- -ul-; -ule ultra- uni- ur- -ura vas- vect- ven-; vent- ventr- belly; -verge vig- vit-; viv- volv- -vor- xanth- xero- xyl- zo-; -zoa zyg- zym- | quick; swift ankle arrange; put in order far off; distant end earth; land four young shoot put cover a surface heat cut; slice poison place windpipe across three hair turn; change nourishment; one who feeds whirl diminutive; small beyond one urine tail vessel carry come underside turn; slant strong life roll; wander devour; eat yellow dry wood animal joined together yeast |
