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-ity (Latin: suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing act, state, quality, property, or condition corresponding to an adjective)
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-ium + (Greek: a suffix; scientific names; names of metallic elements; a part, lining, or enveloping tissue, region; little; representing a diminutive force)
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-ize (Latin: a suffix; to act in a certain way; to treat in a certain way; to make into; to treat with; to do; to make; to cause)
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Janus Words (contronyms or words which have definitions that are self-antonyms; that is, which have two meanings that are the opposites of each other)
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jaundi-, jaun- (Latin: originally galbinus, "greenish yellow" related to galbanus, "yellow" then formed with the intrusive d; from Old French jaunice, jaunisse from jaune, "yellow")
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jejuno-, jejun- + (Latin: the fasting [intestine], the portion of the small intestine between the duodenum and the ileum [so named because early anatomists typically found this organ to be empty in dissection]; original meaning, "hungry, not partaking of food")
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jet-, -ject, -jecting, -jected, -jection, -jector, -jectory; jacu-, jac- (Latin: throw, send, fling, hurl, cast; gush; spurt)
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jocu-, jocul-; jocund- (Latin: joke, joking, jesting, humorous; cheerful and full of good humor)
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Journal Index of Word Info Efforts and Achievements (listings of logs, or blogs, sharing personal stepping stones and stumbling blocks)
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jubil- (Hebrew, jobel, literally, "ram"; from the ram's horn with which the year of celebration was proclaimed; from Latin jubilaeus (annus), "year of jubilee".)
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jud-, judic- (Latin: decide, determine a result; declare to be; right and power to interpret the law)
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junct-, jug-, join- (Latin: link, unite, yoke; bring together, meet, merge, engage in; combine)
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Jupiter, words from myths (Jupiter, Iuppiter, Juppiter, or Jove, King of the Roman gods; fifth planet from the sun)
