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  2. List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes - Wikipedia

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    ultra-beyond, excessive Latin ultra: ultrasound, ultraviolet: umbilic-of or pertaining to the navel, the umbilicus: Latin umbilīcus, navel, belly-button umbilical: ungui-of or pertaining to the nail, a claw Latin unguis, nail, claw unguiform, ungual: un(i)-one Latin ūnus: unilateral hearing loss: ur-of or pertaining to urine, the urinary system

  3. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - Wikipedia

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    Pneumono­ultra­micro­scopic­silico­volcano­coniosis is the longest word in the English language. The word can be analysed as follows: Pneumono: from ancient Greek (πνεύμων, pneúmōn) which means lungs; ultra: from Latin, meaning beyond; micro and scopic: from ancient Greek, meaning small looking, referring to the fineness of ...

  4. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/U - Wikipedia

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    Root Meaning in English Origin language Etymology (root origin) English examples uber-fruitful, udder Latin: ūber, uberare: exuberance, exuberant, exuberate, uberous, uberty

  5. List of Greek and Latin roots in English - Wikipedia

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    The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes. These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O; Greek and Latin roots from P to Z. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are listed in the List of medical roots, suffixes and ...

  6. Augmentative - Wikipedia

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    Like many other augmentative prefixes, jätte- is also a noun that can be part of a compound word, e.g. jättelik "enormous" (literally "giantlike"), as opposed to jättelik "very similar". The use of prefixes to build augmentatives in Swedish is colloquial and is seldom used in formal text and speech, where adjectives and adverbs are used instead.

  7. List of Latin words with English derivatives - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.

  8. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .

  9. Prefix - Wikipedia

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    Adding a prefix to the beginning of an English word changes it to a different word. For example, when the prefix un-is added to the word happy, it creates the word unhappy. The word prefix is itself made up of the stem fix (meaning "attach", in this case), and the prefix pre-(meaning "before"), both of which are derived from Latin roots.