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

Word Unit: aero-, aer-, aeri- + (Greek: air, mist, wind).

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "air, wind": aello-; aeolo-; anemo-; atmo-; austro-; flat-, flatu-; phys-; pneo-, -pnea; pneumato-; turb-; vent-; zephyro-.




Word Unit: aesculus- + (Latin: ancient name of an Italian oak; now applied to the horse chestnut).

Related-word units meaning feeling: senso-; pass-, pati-; patho-.


Word Unit: aevum, evum; etern- (aeternus) (Latin: age; space of time, ever, always; eternity).

Word Unit: ag-, agen-, act-, agi-, agit- (Latin: to set in motion, to shake; to drive; to do, to act, to lead, to conduct, to guide).

Word Unit: agape- + (Greek > Latin: love feast of the early Christians; love, love feast; to love; no hate or hatred).

Related "love, fondness" units: amat-; philo-; vener-; venus.


Word Unit: agari- + (Greek > Latin: mushrooms or toadstools).

Word Unit: agatho-, agath- + (Greek: good).

Word Unit: -age (Latin: a suffix; quality of, act of, process, function, condition, or place; forms nouns that denote an action; a product of an action; a place, an abode).

Word Unit: agglutino-, aggluto-, agglutin- + (Latin: ad-, "to, toward, near" plus gluten, glutinis, "glue, beeswax").

Word Unit: agio-+ (Greek > Italian: change; a fee charged by money brokers [changers] for exchanging money).

Word Unit: -agogic-, -agogue, -agog, -agogic, -agoguery, -agogy (Greek: usually a suffix meaning: lead, leading, leading forth, guide, guiding; bring, take; promoting, stimulating).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "master, lead, leading, ruler, ruling, govern": agon-; arch-; -crat; dom-; gov-; magist-; poten-; regi-; tyran-.


Word Unit: agon- (Greek: struggle, a contest, to contend for a prize; also, to lead, set in motion, drive, conduct, guide, govern; to do, act).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "master, lead, leading, ruler, ruling, govern": -agogic; arch-; -crat; dom-; gov-; magist-; poten-; regi-; tyran-.


Word Unit: agora-, -gor- + (Greek: assembly, market place; open space, public speaking; originally, "to unite").

Word Unit: Agoraphobia (considered to be the most common phobia).

Word Unit: agra- + (Greek > Latin: from ager to agri and agrarius, "of the land"; land, fields).

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


Word Unit: -agra, -agras (Greek: a suffix; in medicine, a painful seizure).

Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: algesi-; algo-; angina-; dolor-; Masochism; noci-; odyno-; poen-; pono- (toil, work; pain); Sadism.


Word Unit: agrest- + (Latin: rustic, rural; pertaining to the fields; from ager then agrestis, "field").

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


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