MuHS Greek & Latin Roots E2 - Set 1

Water

100

This Latin root means "water."

What is "aqu"?

200

This word includes a Latin root for water and means "a place or container for things that live in water."

What is aquarium?

300

This word includes a Latin root for "water" and refers to both elevated and buried pipes that carry water over long distances.

What is aqueduct?

400

This word contains the Latin root for "water" and refers to the water table (the layer of the earth's crust that contains water) in a particular area.

What is aquifer?

500

This word includes the Latin root for "water" and means "growing crops in water."

What is aquaculture?

Sound & Light

100

This is the Latin root meaning "hearing" or "sound."

What is audi?

200

This is the Latin root meaning "light."

What is luc? (or lum)

300

This word includes the Latin root for "across" and "light" and describes a material that lets light through.

What is transparent?

400

This word includes the latin root for "hearing" and refers to a place for hearing a play, speech, or concert.

What is auditorium?

500

This word includes a Latin root for "light" and means "light up or make visible by shining a light on" — or, figuratively, "help to clarify or explain."

What is illuminate?

Earth & Stars

100

This the Latin root for "stars."

What is aster?

200

This is the Latin root for "earth."

What is terra?

300

This word contains the Latin root for "Earth" and means "a flat step on a slope used for farming" or "a patio."

What is terrace?

400

This word contains a Latin root for "star" but refers to the study of all things in space—stars, planets, inrstellar dust, comets, etc.

What is astronomy?

500

This word contains a Latin root for "Earth" and means "an area of land, usually under control of a political state (or animal, team, etc.)"

What is territory?

Time, etc.

100

This Latin root means "time," "season," or "weather."

What is temp?

200

This Latin root means "new."

What is neo?

300

This word contains a Latin root for "new" and means "related to newborn babies."

What is neonatal?

400

This word contains the Latin root for "time" and means "lasting a (short) time."

What is temporary?

500

This word contains the Latin root for "new" and the Latin root for "word" to mean "making a new word."

What is neologism?

Everything Else

100

This Latin root means "down" or "away from."

What is de?

200

This Latin root means "four."

What is quad?

300

This Latin root means "go" or "go away from."

What is ced (or cess)?

400

This word contains a Latin root means "down" and simply means "move in a downward direction."

What is decline?

500

This word contains Latin roots meaning "four" and "leg" and refers to animals that have four legs.

What is quadruped?