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)
autos
16
auxanein
1
auxesis
1
axioma
4
axios
4
aúrā
aḗr
2
Babylṓn
2
bainein
1
balanos
1
ballein
1
baptein
1
baptizein
1
barbaros
4
bios
1
blasphēmein
4
Boiōtios
1
bombos
3
Boréās
1
boskein
1
botanikos
1
botanē
1
brakhiōn
2
byrsa
1
Bákkhos
2
bállein
2
bálsamon
1
bíos
2
býrsa
1
bēta
1
Bēth-lehem
1
bōx
1
charaktēr
2
charaktēristikos
1
charassein
2
chroma
1
chthon
2
daimon
3
daimonikos
1
daímon
1
daímōn
1
dekás
2
despotes
1
despotikos
1
diaballein
2
diabolikos
2
diabolos
3
diagnostikos
1
dialektos
1
diaphanes
1
diaphoresis
1
didonai
1
digamma
1
dikeîn
diplóos
2
drakōn
1
dran
2
drastikos
1
dyas
1
dyo
1
dys-
1
déka
2
dêmos
4
díplōma
2
dípsa
1
dískos
1
dóxa
1
dúnamis
1
dēleisthai
1
dēlētērios
1
dēmos
6
echein
1
eikon
1
eikonikos
1
eirene
2
eirenikos
2
eiron
1
eironeia
1
ekhein
1
ekkentros
2
ekleípein
1
elastikos
1
elaunein
1
elegeía
1
elleípein
1
eléphas
1
eléphās
2
empeirikós
2
emplastron
1
empátheia
1
empýrios
2
energētikós
1
enképhalos
1
enkṓmion
1
enérgeia
1
episkopos
1