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

Word Unit: amygdalo-, amygdal- (Latin: tonsil [almond, almond shaped]).

Word Unit: amylo-, amyl- (Greek: starch).

Word Unit: amyo- (Greek: no muscle).

Word Unit: -an (Latin: a suffix indicating a person who specializes in something).

Word Unit: An English History and Its Development, Introduction, Part 1 (the importance of Latin and Greek in the development of English as revealed in the history of English).

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Word Unit: -an, -ane (Latin: a suffix that forms nouns; pertaining to, like; connected with, belonging to, resembling).

Word Unit: ana-, an-, ano- (Greek: up, upward; back, backward, against; again, anew; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: -ance, -ancy (Latin: a suffix; often through French, quality or state of; being; condition; act or fact of _______ ing).

Word Unit: anco-, anc- + (Greek: ankos: a bend or hollow, an angle; a valley; also a crag).

Word Unit: ancon- + (Greek > Latin: elbow).

A related "elbow" family of words: ulno-.


Word Unit: -ancy (Latin: a suffix; quality, state of; process, degree, action of).

Word Unit: andro-, andr-, -ander, -andra, -andria, -andrian, -andric, -andrism, -androus, -andries, -andry + (Greek: man, men, male, masculine; also, stamen or anther as used in botany; the opposite of woman or women).

Links to other units that include the topic of "man", "mankind":
anthropo-; homo-; vir-.


Word Unit: anemo-, anem- (Greek: air, wind).

Word Unit: angelo-, angel- (Greek: messenger, divine messenger).

Word Unit: angi-, angio-, angei-, -angium (Greek > Latin: [receptacle], vessel, often a blood vessel; "covered by a seed or vessel", a seed vessel; a learned borrowing from Greek meaning "vessel", "container").

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving "blood" word units: apheresis; -emia; hemo-; hemoglobin-; phleb-; sangui-; vas-; vascul-.


Word Unit: angina- (Latin: to strangle; to choke or to suffocate).

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




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