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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: cilio-, cili-, cil- (Latin: the eyelid or its outer edge; hairs growing on the edges of the eyelids, eyelashes).

Word Unit: cimic-, cimici- + (Latin: bedbug).

Related "move, motion" word units: kine-; mobil-; mot-, mov-; oscillo-; seismo-; vibro-.


Word Unit: ciner-, cine- (Latin: ashes).

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly, indirectly, or partly to: "fire, burn, glow, or ashes": ars-, ard-; cand-, cend-; caust-, caut-; crema-; ether-; flagr-; flam-; focus, foci-; fulg-; gehenna-; ign-; phleg-; phlog-; pyreto-, -pyrexia; pyr-; spod- (ashes; waste); volcan-.


Word Unit: cingo-, cing-, -cinct- + (Latin: surrounding, to encircle, to go around; to bind, to gird).

Word Unit: ciono-, cion-, kiono-, kio- + (Greek: uvula; the small piece of soft tissue that can be seen dangling down from the soft palate over the back of the tongue).

Word Unit: circ- + (Latin: circle [a ring; wheel], round).

Related "around, round, surrounding" units: ambi-; ampho-; circum-; cyclo-, -cycle; gyro-; peri-.


Word Unit: circum- + (Latin: around, about, surrounding, on all sides; literally, "in a circle").

Related "around, round, surrounding" units: ambi-; ampho-; circ-; cyclo-, -cycle; gyro-; peri-.


Word Unit: cirrho- + (Greek kirrhos: orange-yellow > New Latin cirrhosis: diseased condition of the liver).

Word Unit: cirro-, cirr-, cirri- + (Latin: curl, ringlet; tuft of hair, fringe; by extension, filament, tendril).

Word Unit: -cise, -cis, -cide (Latin: a suffix; to cut, cut).
Related cutting-word units: castrat-; -ectomy; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; -tomy; trunc-.


Word Unit: cit-, citat- + (Latin: talk, speak, say; to put into quick motion, to excite, to provoke, to call urgently; to summon, to summon forth, to arouse, to stimulate; used in the sense of "stimulating").
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": clam-; dic-; English Words: Origins and Histories; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.


Word Unit: civi-, civ-, cit- (Latin: city, citizen).

Word Unit: clado-, clad- (Greek klados: shoot, young branch; branch; twig).

Word Unit: clair- (Latin > French: "clear" perceiving through extrasensory perception).

Word Unit: clam- [cla-] clamat-, claim- + (Latin: talk, call out, speak, say, shout).
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; dic-; English Words: Origins and Histories; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.


Word Unit: clandesti-, clandest- + (Latin: secret, hidden, concealed).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "secret, hidden, confidential, concealed": ceal-; crypto-; myster-; occult-; orgy; stego-, stegano-.


Word Unit: clari-, clar-, (Latin: clear, bright, shining, glorious).

Word Unit: class- (Latin: division according to rank; class, division, army, fleet).

Word Unit: Classical Education (primarily the learning of the Latin and/or Greek languages, history, and literature).

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