Ancient Greek Word Roots
The building blocks of English vocabulary. Every root below traces a word back to its Latin, Greek, or older origin — follow a root to see every word that grew from it.
Ancient Greek (1191)
-logía
2
-oeides
1
-oeidēs
1
-γενής
1
-γραφία
1
-λογία
3
agein
3
agoreúein
1
agápē
1
agōnistḗs
1
agṓn
6
aisthanesthai
1
aisthetikós
2
aisthánesthai
2
aisthēsis
1
Akadēmía
4
akhrōmatos
1
akhátēs
1
akmḗ
1
akoustikós
1
akoúein
1
akróbatos
1
akónē
1
akēdía
2
algos
1
allēgoría
1
ambrosia
2
ambrotos
2
amnestia
1
amphi-
1
amphibios
1
amárantos
1
an-
1
ana-
3
anakhorein
2
anakhoretes
3
anakhronismos
1
analogon
1
analyein
1
analytikos
1
anarkhia
1
anatomia
1
angelikos
2
angelos
3
ankyra
1
anomalia
1
anomalos
2
antagōnistḗs
2
antagōnízesthai
2
anthos
1
anthropos
1
antipátheia
1
antithetikós
1
antí
10
anōnymos
3
anḗr
1
aphrodísia
1
Aphrodítē
1
apokalyptikós
1
apokálypsis
1
apología
3
apologētikós
2
apoplēktikós
1
apotheōsis
1
apothḗkē
1
apátheia
3
apógaion
1
apóphthegma
2
Arkadía
1
arkhaïkós
1
arkhein
1
arkheîon
1
arkhi-
1
arkhos
1
arkhétupon
1
arkhḗ
3
arákhnē
1
askéō
1
askētikós
1
asphyxía
1
asterískos
1
astrología
1
astron
3
astronomía
2
astḗr
1
atmós
2
atrophía
1
authentes
2
authentikos
4
autochthon
2
autographos
1
autokrateia
1
autokrates
1
automaton
1
automatos
2
autonomos
1