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Word Unit: pecca-, pecc- + (Latin: to err, to sin, to commit a crime).

Related "sin, sinful" word unit: harmarto-.

Word Unit: pectoro-, pector- + (Latin: breast, chest).

Cross references of word families that are related, partially or totally, to: "breast, breasts, chest": mammill-; mammo-; masto-; mastoido-; mazo-; pleuro-; sterno-; stetho-; thorac-.

Word Unit: pecu-, pecun- + (Latin: cattle, property in cattle; private property; one's own; particular).

Cross references of word families related to: "individual, personal": idio-; privat-, priv-.

Word Unit: ped-, pedi-, -pedal, -ped, -pede, -pedia + (Latin: foot, feet).

Related "foot, feet" units: melo-; planta-; podo-; -pus.

Word Unit: pediculo-, pedicul-, pedico-, pedic- (Latin: louse, lousy; of lice).

Word Unit: pedo-, paedo-, ped-, paed-, paido-, paid- + (Greek: child, boy; infant).

Word Unit: pedo-, ped- + (Greek: pedon, ground, soil, earth).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.

Word Unit: peer, pair (Latin: same, equal, similar).

Related-word units meaning same: auto-; equ-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; syn-; tauto-.

Word Unit: pego-, -pegic (Greek: spring, fountain, mineral spring).

Word Unit: pejor- + (Latin: worse).

Word Unit: pel-, -pell, -pellent, -peal (Latin: push, beat, strike, knock, drive).

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "push, shove, thrust": osmo-; puls-; trud-.

Word Unit: pel-, pelo- + (Greek: mud, earth, clay).

Word Unit: pelago-, pelag- + (Greek [pelagos] > Latin [pelagicus]: sea, pertaining to the sea or ocean).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "sea" and the "ocean" bodies of water: abysso- (bottomless); Atlantic; batho-, bathy- (depth); bentho- (deep, depth); halio-, halo- (salt or "the sea"); mare, mari- (sea); necto-, nekto- (swimming); oceano-; plankto- (drifting); thalasso- (sea, ocean).

Word Unit: pelt-, pelto-, pelti- + (Greek: shield; small-light shield).

Word Unit: pelvi-, pelvio-, pelvo-, pelyco- + (Latin: basin; basin-shaped structure of the body).

Word Unit: pemphig-, pemphi- + (Greek: pemphix, "blister"; blistering skin diseases or a swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid and is caused by burning or irritation; a bump or small swelling on or beneath the skin).

Cross references of word groups that are related, partially or extensively, to: "blister, bump, swelling": bull-; ichor-; papulo-; puro-; pus-; pustu-; pyo-; suppurant-; tum-; vesico-; vesiculo-.

Word Unit: pend-, pens, -pense, -pending, -pended (Latin: hang, hanging; weigh, weighing; to cause to hang down).

Word Unit: peni-, peno-, peo- (Greek > Latin: "tail"; male organ of copulation, the penis).

Related "tail" word units: caudo-; cerc-; uro-.

Word Unit: -penia- (s), -penias (pl), -penic, pen-, penia- + (Greek > Modern Latin: abnormal reduction, decrease in, insufficient, deficiency. Originally, the meaning was poverty, need; sometimes it is erroneously or incorrectly rendered as -poenia).

Word Unit: penna- + (Latin: feather, feathers; by extension in some situations, wing, wings).

Related "feather, feather-like; soft down, plumage" word units: pinni-, pin-; plum-, -plume; pterido-; ptero-; ptilo-.

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