100 Greek and Latin word roots

photos

light

graph

to write or draw

tele

distant or far away

tropos

turn

phobos

fear

metron

measure

philia

love

syn

with or together

thesis

to put, place, or position

kinesis

movement

phone

sound

skopeo (what does a sniper look through?)

to see

video, visum

to see

sonus

sound

logos

word or study of

verbum

word

nomen/nominis

name

pro

for or before

prae

before

ad

to or toward

jacio, jacum

to throw

pono, positum

to put, place, or position

cum

with

figo, fixum

to attach

jungo, junctum

join

digitus

fingers

caput, capitis

head

manus

hand

pes, pedis

feet

brachium

arm

dens, dentis

teeth

corpus, corporis

body

octo

eight

novem

nine

decem

ten

centum

hundred

mille

thousand

pyro

fire

ignis

fire

vulcanus

fire

hydros

water

aqua

water

bonus

good

helios

sun

sol

sun

luna

moon

dia

across

trans

across

geo

earth

terra

land

dormio, dormitium

sleep

hypnos

sleep

annus

yearly

lithos

stone

petros

stone

astron

star

stella

star

dendron

tree

arbor, arboris

tree

chronos

time

tempus, temporis

time

para

beside

inter

between

techne

art or skill

ars, artis

art or skill

bios

life

vivo, victum

to live

mikros

small

megas

big

magnus

big

pater, patris

father

mater, matris

mother

frater, fratris

brother

demos

people

populus

people

polis

city

urbs, urbis

city

pathos

feeling or suffering

autos

self

thermos

heat

curro, cursum

to run

zoon

animal

verto, versum

to turn

facio, factum

to do or make

scribo, scriptum

to write

plico, plicatum

multiply

dico, dictum

to say or speak

biblos

book

liber, libre

book

scio, scitum

knowledge

discipulus

student

sauros

lizard

amo, amatum

love