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Latin Roots 6 meanings
- don = to give
a. donate – to give
b. date – to give the time and place
c. pardon – to forgive
d. condone – to forgive (synonym for pardon
e. donor – one who gives
- domin = to master or rule
a. dominate – to rule over
b. dominant – the quality of being strong or ruling
c. dominion – place of rule
d. domineering – bossy (negative connotation)
e. eminent – about to take over as the important thing
f. domain – area of rule
- mira =to look or wonder
a. mirror – a silver-coated piece of glass in which a person
can see himself/herself
b. admire – to look at with wonder
c. miracle – a wonderful happening
d. miraculous – having the quality of wonder
e. mirage – a vision that one believes he/she sees but is not
there
f. admiration – the act of appreciating something with a
sense of wonder
- vid = to see or perceive
a. video – a film that one sees
b. supervisor – one who sees another’s work and has
control
c. advise – to give insight because of perception of a
situation
d. provide – to see a need and give help
e. belvedere – a place with a pretty view
f. providence – the act of seeing and providing help if
needed
- spect = to see or look
a. perspective – to see from a particular point of view
b. spectacular – the quality of being seen as wonderful
c. spectacle– the act of doing something to draw attention
OR eyewear
d. inspector – one who looks and decides the quality of the
work or place
e. spectator – one who watches an event
f. spectrum – the whole area in which to look
g. prospect – to see one as a possibility
h. prospector – one who goes looking for something
i. specimen – an example to be looked at (as in a lab, the
item studied)
j. circumspect – the quality of being suspicious (literally –
looking around
k. suspect –one who is seen as a possible culprit (bad
guy/girl)
- reg = rule or direct
a. reign – a royal person’s rule (verb)
b. region – area in which one rules
c. regulate – to direct the manner and/or procedure
d. regimen – the rule one uses to accomplish a goal (as in a
diet regimen or training regimen for sports)
- somn = sleep
a. insomnia – unable to sleep
b. somnambulist – one who walks in his/her sleep
c. somniloquist – one who talks in his/her sleep
- jac =throw
a. eject – to throw out
b. projectile – an object thrown (like a missile)
c. interject – to throw in (to interrupt, sort of)
d. trajectory – the route a missile travels (is thrown)
e. dejected – to be depressed (to be thrown down)
f. injection – the act of putting into something
- voc = call
a. vocal – to use one’s voice, to call
b. vociferate – to call out and talk a great deal
c. voice – what one uses to call and talk
d. convoke – to call together
e. provocative – to call attention to
f. provoke – to call into action or feeling
g. avocation – hobby, one’s calling (not just a job)
h. vocation – one’s job
- tang = touch
a. tangible -- touchable
b. tangent – touching but not intersecting, change of course
c. contagious – something that is catching (usually by
touch)
d. tact – to do or say with politeness (using a gentle touch)
e. intangible – untouchable
f. contingent – depending on something else
g. contact – to touch
- amo = love
a. amorous – in a loving manner
b. amicable – friendly
c. inimical – harmful, hostile (not loving)
d. amateur – doing for love, not for money
- ambulo = walk
a. ambulance – walking hospital (vehicle to carry and treat
the sick)
b. ambulocitids – prehistoric walking animals
c. preamble – the beginning of something (ex. Constitution) symbolic walking through
d. perambulator – baby carriage
e. amble – to walk leisurely
f. ambulatory – able to walk