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)
epsilon
1
ergon
1
erēmitēs
1
erēmos
1
esō
1
esōterikos
1
ethnikos
1
ethnos
1
eu
1
eulogia
1
gaster
1
ge
2
genesis
1
genetos
1
genos
1
gignoskein
1
gignōskein
3
gignṓskein
1
Graikos
1
gramma
1
gramme
1
graphein
7
graphikos
1
gráphein
2
gráphō
1
gymnastēs
1
gymnásion
1
gymnós
2
gynḗ
1
génos
3
gē
1
haptein
1
haptikos
1
harmozein
2
harpazein
1
harpyia
1
hebdomas
4
hedone
2
hedonikos
1
hedra
1
hedus
1
hektikos
1
helios
1
Hellen
1
Hellenikos
1
hepta
2
histanai
1
hodos
2
hodós
2
holos
1
homalos
2
homogenḗs
2
homos
3
homós
5
horízōn
1
hydor
3
hygieinos
1
hygies
1
hyle
2
hyperbole
1
hyphen
1
hypnos
1
hypnotikos
1
hystera
2
hysterikos
2
hálōs
1
hóros
1
hḗrōs
1
ichthys
1
idioma
1
idios
2
idiotes
1
indikon
1
iōta
1
kaiein
2
kakós
1
kalýptein
2
kamara
1
kamára
1
kamēlopardalis
1
kamēlos
1
kannabis
1
kanōn
3
kappa
1
kataklysmos
3
katalogos
katastrophe
1
kategorein
3
kategoria
3
kathedra
1
katholikos
1
kauma
1
kaustikos
1
kauter
1
kentron
5
kephale
1