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

Word Unit: Clone Gallery (Cloned animals currently known).


Word Unit: clys-, -clys (Greek: to wash; washing).

Related "wash" words: balneo-; lav-; luto-; plyno-.


Word Unit: cnem-, cnemo-, cnemi-; knem-, knemo-, knemi- (Greek: the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle).

Word Unit: cnesto-, cneso-, cnes-, cniso-, cnis-, -cnesmia, -cnismo + (Greek: scratch, tickle, itch, sting).

Word Unit: cnid-, cnido- (Greek: nettle; a relationship to a nettle or nettle-like structure; nettle rash).

Word Unit: coagulo-, coagul- (Latin: to curdle; from a verb meaning "to bring together").

Word Unit: coalesc-, coalit- (Latin > Medieval Latin > French: growing together, merging, combining, uniting).

Word Unit: cocco-, cocc-, -coccus, -cocci, -coccal, -cocca (Greek: bacteria; literally, a "berry, kernel").

Word Unit: coccygo-, coccyg-, coccyge-, coccyo-, coccy- (Greek: cuckoo; the end of the vertebral column in man and in some apes; the rudiment of a tail).

Word Unit: cochle-, cochl-, cochleo-, cochlio- (Greek: spiral shell, snail with a spiral shell; pertaining to the cochlea, the spiral tube in the inner ear).

Word Unit: coct-, cocto- + (Latin: to cook, to boil; to prepare; to digest).

Closely related to the coqu-, cocu- family of "to cook, to ripen" words.


Word Unit: codex-, codi-, cod- (Latin: a code of laws, a writing tablet; an account book; originally, "the trunk of a tree").

Word Unit: coelio-, coelo-, coel-, -coele, coeli-, celeo-, cel-, cele-, celi-, celio- (Greek: abdomen [hollow, cavity of the body]).

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.


Word Unit: cogni-, cogn-, cognosc- + (Latin: know, learn).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "know, knowledge; learn, learning": discip-; gno-; histor-; intellect-; learn, know; math-; sap-; sci-; sopho-.


Word Unit: coife, cofea, cuphia (Latin: a helmet, a cap; head dress, hair style).

Word Unit: coimetro-, coimetr-; koimetro-, koimetr- + (Greek: koimeterion, sleeping-room, burial-place).

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "bury, burial, cemetery, grave; sleeping place": Epitaphs; funer-; sepulc-; sheol; tapho-.


Word Unit: -cole, -cola, -coles, -colid, -coline, -colous + (Latin: to inhabit, to live in, on, or among; to dwell; living among, dwelling in).

Related life, live-word units: anima-; bio-; vita-; viva-.


Word Unit: cole-, coleo- + (Greek: sheath, scabbard).

Word Unit: coll-, col- + (Latin: neck).

Cross references related to "neck, throat" word families: cervic-; esophag-; guttur-; laryng-; nuch-; trachel-.


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