word parts

WORD PARTS

PREFIXES, ROOTS, SUFFIXES

PREFIXES

• Circum - around• acro - high• bi - twice, double• cata - down• by - side, close, near• bene, bon - good, well• ante - before• anti - against• ambi, amphi - both• a, an - not, without

ROOTS• Roots: • act - to do• aero - air• agr - agricultural• alter -make different• ann, enn - annual• aqua - water• ast - one connected with• audi - hearing

SUFFIXES

• able, ible – can be done• al, ial – having characteristics of • en – made of• ful – full of• ic – having characteristics of• ion, tion, ation, ition – act, process

More Word PartsPrefixes

• bio – life (biology, biography

• auto – self (autobiography, automatic)

• dis -not, apart (disengage, disperse, disinherit)

• ex- out (exotic, exterior, exit)

• demos – people (democracy, demographic )

Suffixes• -cule, ling – very small

(molecule, ridicule, duckling• -dom – quality, realm

(freedom, kingdom, wisdom• -er, or – one who, that

which (baker, miller, professor)

• -ese – a native of, the language of (Japanese, Taiwanese

• -ess – female (goddess, actress