Prefixes
This prefix means before, as in "prenatal"
What is pre-?
This base means heart.
What is cord-?
This base means to hear.
What is aud-?
This suffix means “pertaining to,” as in “nasal.”
What is -al?
A Latin noun ending in "-a" changes to this plural ending in the 1st declension.
What is -ae?
Meaning lung, this base appears in "pulmonary."
What is pulmon-?
This base means to cut or kill, found in words like "homicide."
What is cid-/cis?
This suffix means full of, as in “adipose.”
What is -ose?
The plural of a 2nd declension "-us" noun (like fungus) ends in this.
What is -i?
What is ab-?
This base means kidney.
What is ren-?
This base means to send, as in “transmission.”
What is mit-/mis-?
Meaning killing, this suffix appears in words like “pesticide.”
What is -cide?
A nomative 2nd declension noun ends in "-um" in the singular; what does it end in the plural?
What is -a?
This prefix means back or again; it appears in words like "reactivate."
What is re-?
This base means breast, as found in "mammary."
What is mamm-?
This base means to turn, such as in “reverse.”
What is vert-/vers-?
This suffix means little, as in “globule.”
What is -ule / -ole?
This declension often has singular forms but a plural ending in "-es" or "-a."
What is the 3rd declension?
This prefix means beyond, appears in words like "ultrasound."
What is ultra-?
This base means tongue.
what is lingu-?
This base means to walk.
What is ambul-?
This suffix forms nouns of state or quality, as in "condition of sleepiness."
What is -ence/-ance?
The 4th declension is unusual because the plural of "-us" nouns remains this.
What is -us?