400个常见词根

英语常见词根—400个

acid, acr = sour, sharp act = to act

agogue = leader al, ol, ul = to nourish

alt = high alter, ali = other

am = to love ang = to strangle

angl, angul = angle anim = breath, mind

ann = year anthrop = man

apt = fit aqua = water

arm = weapons art = skill, art

aud = to hear aug = to increase, to make,to grow avi = bird

band, bond = to bind bar = bar

bat = to beat bat , bas = to go

bell = war bio = life

brev = short cad, cid, cas = to fall

calc = lime camp = field

cand = white , bright cant, chant, cent = to sing

cap = head cap = to take

car = car , to run carn = flesh

cast = throw cav = hollow

cede, ceed , cess = to go, to yield ceive, cept, cip, cipate = to take

celer = swift cent = hundred

centr = center cern, cret = to separate

cert = sure chron = time

cide , cise = to cut circ , cyc = ring

cite = to call , to urge claim , clam = to cry

clin = to bend clud = to shut

coct = to cook cognis, gnos = to know

commun = common cord = heart

corp = body cosm , cosmo = universe

count = to count cover = to cover

cre, cresc = to make, to grow cred = to believe

crim = accusation, crime crit = to judge

cruc = cross culp = blame, guilt

cult = to till cumb = to lie down

cur, course = to run cure = to take care

cuss = to strike , to shake deb, du = to owe

dei = god dem = people

dent = tooth derm, derma, dermat = skin

dic = to proclaim dict, dit = to say

dign = worthy divid, divis = to divide

doc = to teach dom = house

dom = to tame, to rule don, dot, dow = to give

dorm = to sleep dox, dogma = opinion

draw = to draw, to pull drom = to run , course(process) duce, duct = to lead dur = to last

dyn, dynam = power

eco = house ego = I , self

electr = electric

em, empt = to take, to buy equ = equal

err = to wander, to err ess, est = to be

fa, fabl, fabul = to speak fac, front = face, forehead

fac, fect = to make , to do fall, fals = to deceive

fam = to speak fare = to go

fend , fest = to strike fer = to carry, to bear, to tolerate

ferv = to boil fess = to speak

fest = festival fict, fig = to feign

fid = to trust figure = to shape , figure(n.), form(n.) fil = thread , to spin fin = to end

firm = firm fix = to fasten

flam, flagr = flame, to burn flat = to blow

flect, flex = to bend flict = to strike

flor = flower flu = to flow

foli = leaf form = to form, form ,shape

fort = strong found , fund = base

fract, frag = to break fug = to flee

fuse, found = to pour gam = marriage

gener, gen, gent = to produce, race(n.) ger, gest = to carry

grad, gress = to walk gram , graph = to write

grand = grand grat = to please

grav = heavy gregat = to collect

hab, hibit = to have hap= luck

helio = sun her = heir

herb = grass here, hes = to stick

horr = to tremble hum , hom = man

hum = ground hydr = water

hypno = sleep idio = personal, distinct

insul = island it = to go

ject , jac = to throw join, junct = to join

journ = day jud = to judge

jur = to swear just, juris = law, right , justice

labor = to work laps = to slip, to glide

late = to bring , to bear later = side

lav , lau = to wash lax , lyse = to loosen

lect, leg = to choose , to gather, to read leg = to appoint , to send leg = law lev = to raise, light (adj.)

liber = free libr, lib = book

lic = to be permitted lig = to bind

lingu = tongue, language liqu = fluid

liter = letter loc = place

log , loqu, locut = to speak long = long

lud = to play lumin = light

lust, luc = bright

magn, maj , max = great manu, man = hand mand, mend = to order , to entrust mari = sea

mark = to mark , boundary matr= mother

mechan = machine med = to heal

medi = middle melan = black

memor = to remember ment = to think , mind(n.) mere = to trade , reward(n.) merge, mers = to sink, to dip meter = to measure migr = to remove , to wander milit = soldier, to fight min = to jut , to project

min = small mir = to wonder, to behold miss, mit = to send, to throw mix = to mix

mod = manner mon = to advise , to remind monstr = to show mor = custom

morph = form mort = death

mount = mountain, to ascend mov, mob, mot = to move muni = service mur = wall

mut = to change myst = mystery

nat = born nau, nav = ship

necro = death, dead nect , nex = to bind

neg = to deny neur , neuro , nerv = nerve neutr = neither nihil = nothing

noc , nox = to harm noct , nox = night

nomin, nom = name norm = rule, norm

not = to mark nounce, nunci = to report nov = new nul, null = nothing number, numer = number, to count nutri = to nourish

ocul = eye onym = name

oper = to work , work opt = to wish

opt, opto = eye, sight ora = to speak ,to pray order, ordin = order ori = to rise , to begin

orn = to decorate, to furnish ortho = straight , right oss, osteo = bone pact = to agree, to fasten

pan = bread par = to prepare

par = equal par = to appear

par = to bear , to give birth to part = a part , to part

pass = to pass passi , pati, path = to suffer, feelings part = father ped = foot

ped = child pel , puls = to drive

pen ,pun = to punish pend, pens = to hang , to weigh

peri = to go through pet = to fly , to seek

petr, petro = stone, rock phan ,fan = appearance

phon = sound ; phe = to speak photo = light (n.)

pict = to paint , picture plac , pleas = to please

plain , plaint = to beat the breast plant = to plant , plant (n.)

plaud, plode = to strike, to clap plen, plete, ple , pli, ply = to fill, full ( adj. ) plore = to flow out ply, pli, ple = to fold

polis = city polit, poli = state, country

pon , pound = to put popul, publ = people

port = to carry port = gate

pos = to place , to put potent = powerful

prec = to pray preci = price

preda = prey(n.), to plunder press = to press

prim, prin, prem = first pris, prehend = to seize

priv = private (adj.) to deprive proach , proxim = near

prob, prov = to test , to try, to examine proper , propri = proper, one’s own psych, psycho = soul pugn = to fight

punct = to prick pur = pure

purg = to purify pute = to think

quer = to complain qui, quiet = calm , rest(n.)

quire, quisit , quest = to seek quit = to free , to release

rad, ras = to scrape radi = root

radi = ray rap, rav = to snatch

rat , ratio = to reckon , reason (n.) rect = right , straight

reg = to rule , king (n.) rept = to creep

rid , ris = to laugh rod, ros = to gnaw

rog = to ask rot = wheel (n.) , to turn

rud = raw rupt = to break

rur, rus = country sacr , sanct , secr = sacred

sal = salt sal, sult = to leap

sal , san = whole sangui = blood

sat = full scan , scend , scal = to climb sci = to know scribe , script = to write

sect = to cut sed, sess, sid = to sit

semin = seed sen = old

sens ,sent = to feel sequ, secut, su = to follow sert = to join, to put serv = to serve, to keep

sign = to mark simil, sembl = like(prep.), same sinu = curve ,sinus sist , stitut, sta, st = to stand soci = companion, to associate sol = alone

sol = sun solv, solute = to loosen

somn = sleep son =sound

soph = wise ,wisdom sort = kind

spec, spect = to see, to look sper = hope

spers = to scatter spher = ball

spir = to breathe splend = to shine

spond , spons = to promise stell = star

still = drop stinct, sting = to prick

string , strict , strain, stress = to draw tight stru, struct = to build

suade = to advise sume,sumpt = to take

summ = sum, highest sur = sure , secure

surge , surrect = to rise tac, tic = silent

tail = to cut tang , tact = to touch

tain , ten, tin = to hold , to keep techn(o) = art , skill

tect = to cover temper = to moderate

tempor = time tempt , tent = to try

tend , tens , tent = to stretch tenu = thin

term = boundary terr = earth

terr = to frighten test = witness

text = to weave the(o) = god

thes, thet = to place , to put tim = to fear

ton = tone tort = to twist

tour, torn = to turn tox = poison

tract , treat = to draw tribut = to pay , to bestow

trop = to turn trud , trus = to thrust , to push tum = to swell turb = to disturb

ultim = last umbr = shadow

urb = city us , uti = to use

vac, van , void = empty vade = to go

vaga = to wander val , vail = strong , worth

var(i) = diverse , to change velop = to wrap

ven , vent = to come ven = vein

venge = to avenge vent = wind

ver = true verb = word

verg = to incline vers, vert = to turn

vest = to clothe , garment

vi , voy = way vict , vinc = to conquer

vid , vis = to see vig , veg = lively

viv = to live voc , voke = to call , voice

vol = will volve, volut = to roll

vor = to eat vulse = to pluck , pull out ,pull off