Greek and Latin Stems: The keys to your vocabulary

Greek Root Word Stems astro - star bio - life chrom - color chrono - time derm - skin geo - earth hydro - water hypno - sleep lith - stone logue - word logo - reason micro - 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

Prefixes auto - self bene - good ante - before anti - against im – not bi – two con – together de – undo dis – opposite tri – three syn – together sym - with inter – between intra – within intro - begin mal – wrong mis – bad non - opposite post - after pre – before semi - half sub – under super – over un - not extra - outside

Suffixes able - able to be age - process ant - one who cle - small dom - state of er - one who esque - like ess - female ful - full of logy - study of