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LATEST AND GREEK ROOTS OF TECHNICAL WORDS 



plan, flat, plane, smooth 



plant {ar, i), sole of foot 



plasm, forming, formed 



^/a/y,_flat, broad 



plec (o, /), twist, pluck 



plesio, near 



pleth, full, crowded 



pleur, side 



plex, interwoven 



plica, fold 



phi, fitted for sailing 



plum (a), feather 



pneu {mo, st), air, breathing, hence lung 



pno (i), air, breathing 



pod, foot 



poly, many 



poll {ex, ic), thumb 



pons, bridge 



poplit {ea), hock 



porta, gate 



post, behind, after 



pre, before 



prim, first 



pro, in front, toward, instead of 



process, to project from 



proct, anus 



profund, deep 



proliger, bearing offspring 



pros, forward 



prostate, in first rank 



proto, first 



psalter, book of psalms 



pseud, false 



pter, wing, feather, fin 



ptyal, spittle 



pxtbi {c, s), grown up, sexually mature 



pulmo, lung 



pyg, rump 



Pyl, gate 



pyo, pus 



Pyr, pear 



gMflkf, four 



quadrigemin, quadruplets 

 quat, four 

 gMw/, five 



rack, spine 



roJt, root 



ram {i, u), branch 



raph, seam 



rect, straight, right 



ren, kidney 



rept, creeping 



retic, network 



retina, little net 



retro, back, backward, behind 



revehentes, carrying back 



rkabd, rod 



rhage, tear, rent 



rhach, spine 



rhin, nose 



f/ti'z, root 



rhynch, snout 



r<?<i«, gnaw 



rota, turn, wheel 



rostrum, beak, prow 



rumen, throat 



saccul, little sac 



sacr (aJ, mw) sacred 



sarc, flesh 



jawr, lizard 



ica/fl, ladder, stairway 



scalene, uneven 



scaph, anything hollow, bowl, ship 



scapula, shoulder blade 



schizo, cleft, split 



sciat, hip 



scler, hard 



scop, shadow, broom, small owl, one who 



sees 

 scut, shield 

 scyph, cup 

 seba, tallow, wax 

 sect, cutting 

 selen, moon 

 sella, seat, saddle 

 semi, half, part 

 sept, seven, wall 



ser {o, u), any fluid formed in the body 

 serra, saw 

 sex, six 



sinus, hollow, bay 

 sipko, tube 

 skier, hard 

 sol, sun 

 soma, body 

 sperm, seed, semen 

 sphen, wedge 

 sphinct, dosing 

 splanch, viscera 

 splen, bandage, spleen 

 spondyl, vertebra 



