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access to"
- `clus`: the same as `clude` (e.g. recluse)
- `col`: column (e.g. coliform, `col` + `i` + `form`)
- `cor`: heart (e.g. cordial)
- `corn`: horn (e.g. unicorn)
- `cover`: cover (e.g. coverall, bedcover, covert)
- `cracy`: rule, power (e.g. aristocracy, democracy)
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- `fect`: the same as `fact` (e.g. perfect, pluperfect, effect, defect, affect,
infect, disinfect, confect)
- `feit`: the same as `fact` (e.g. forfeit, surfeit, counterfeit)
- `fenc`: the same as `fend` (e.g. fence, defence)
- `fend`: to strike, hit, push (e.g. defend, fender, defendable)
- `fens`: the same as `fend` (e.g. defensible, indefensible, defenceless)
- `fest`: (able to be) seized (e.g. manifest, infest)
- `fer`: to carry, to bear (e.g. confer, infer, transfer)
- From Latin `ferre`
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- `loc`: a place, spot (e.g. local, locality, locomote, matrilocal, allocate,
relocate)
- From Latin `locus`
- `locut`: the same as `log`
- `locut`: the same as `log` (e.g. locution, elocution, interlocutor)
- `log`: speech; to speak; word, speech, thought; the same as `lect` (e.g. logo,
logger, apology, catalogue, waterlog, logarithm, syllogism, blog = weblog,
ideologue, homologue, decalogue, apology, dialog, logic, monologue, eulogy,
epilogue, neologize, slogan)
epilogue, neologize, slogan, philology, analog, phonological, genealogical,
tautological, prologue, pseudology, antilogy, dyslogy)
- From Greek `legein` = to speak, `logos` = word, speech, though
- From Latin `loqui` = to speak
- `logos`: the same as `log`
- `loqu`: the same as `log`
- `loqu`: the same as `log` (e.g. eloquence, quoloquy, ventriloquy, soliloquy,
loquacious, grandiloquent)
- `low`: low
- `lun`: moon (e.g. lunar)
- `main`: the same as `man` (e.g. maintain)
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- `seri`: weighty, important, serious, grave, strict, austere (e.g. serious)
- From Latin `serius`
- `sev`: the same as `seri` (e.g. severe, persevere)
- `sol`: sole (e.g. sojourn)
- `sol`: sole (e.g. sojourn, soliloquy)
- `sim`: the same as `sem` (e.g. simple)
- `simil`: the same as `sem` (e.g. similar, facsimile)
- `simul`: the same as `sem` (e.g. simulate)
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- From Latin `venire`, from the three-V instrument.
- `vent`: the same as `ven` (e.g. advent, ventiduct, event, convention, invent,
prevent, circumvent, convenient, venture, subvention)
- `ventr` belly (e.g. ventriloquy)
- `ver`: true, trustworthy (e.g. verdict)
- `verb`: a word; to speak, say (e.g. verbal)
- `vert` to turn, bend (e.g. convert, subvert)
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- `andeno`: gland-like (e.g. andenoma, andenovirus)
- `ant`: in front of, forehead, before (e.g. antedate, anteroom, anticipate, antique)
- `anti`: opposed to or against something (e.g. anti-virus, antibiotic,
antipathetic, anti-cheating)
antipathetic, anti-cheating, antilogy)
- `as`: the same as `ad` (e.g. assist)
- `agri`: relating to farming (e.g. agriculture, agribusiness)
- `agro`: the same as `agri` (e.g. agrobiology, agro-industry)
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directions, between,"
- `dis`: not or opposite (e.g. disagree, disfigure, difficult)
- `du`: the same as `di` (e.g. duplicate, duplex)
- `dys`: bad, ill; hard, difficult; abnormal, imperfect (e.g. dysfunction)
- `dys`: bad, ill; hard, difficult; abnormal, imperfect (e.g. dysfunction,
dyslogy)
- From Greek `dys-`
- `e`: same as `ex` (e.g. evict, educe)
- `ec`: the same as `ex-` (e.g. eclectic)
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- `per`: through; throughout; thoroughly; entirely, utterly; very (e.g. perfect,
perform, persist, permit, persevere)
- `pedo`: boy, child; foot (e.g. pedology, pedophile, pedometer)
- `pseudo`: false, lying; falsely; deceived (e.g. pseudologue)
- `pir`: pear (e.g. piriform)
- `plat`: small place (e.g. platform)
- `poly`: multiple, many, entire (e.g. polytechnic, polycyclic, polyglot)
- `por`: the same as `pro` (e.g. portray, portrait)
- `pre`: before, ahead (e.g. preformed, prefigure)
- From Latin `prae-`, before, ahead
- `pro`: forward, before, forth (e.g. promote, prostitute, produce, profess,
profit)
profit, prologue)
- It comes from `Prometheus`, who can predict the future.
- `pur`: the same as `pro` (e.g. purpose, purview, purvey)
- A variant of Latin pro "before, for" (see `pro-`)
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- `sus`: the same as `sub` (e.g. sustain)
- Assimilated form of `sub-` before `-s-`.
- `super`: above (e.g. superstructure, superstring)
- `tauto`: the same (e.g. tautological)
- `tele`: at or over a long distance (e.g. television, telephone, telegraph,
telecast, telemeter)
- `tetra`: four (e.g. teracycline)
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