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)
myron
1
mysterion
1
mystikos
2
mythos
2
mágos
1
málagma
2
mármaros
1
mâza
2
mélas
1
mésos
1
métallon
1
méthodos
2
métron
1
mîmos
2
mîsos
4
mēkhanikós
1
mēkhanikḗ
1
mēkhanḗ
4
mētēr
1
mīmikós
1
mōros
1
mōrós
1
nektar
2
nomadikós
1
nomos
2
némein
2
néos
2
nómos
1
oikonomia
1
oikonomía
2
oikos
1
oikoumenikós
1
oikouménē
1
onoma
1
ou
1
oxys
1
oxýs
1
oîkos
4
oîmos
1
paidagogia
1
pan
3
pandēmos
2
panikós
2
parabolḗ
3
paradeisos
1
parallēlos
2
pardalis
1
paroikía
1
paroimía
1
pará
2
parálysis
1
pastá
2
pathētikós
1
patēr
1
pedon
1
pedotes
1
pente
1
peri
4
periodos
3
periphereia
1
periplous
1
peîra
2
phainein
6
phainomenon
2
phantastikós
1
phantasía
4
pharmakeutikos
1
pharmakon
2
pharmakopoles
1
phaínein
3
pherein
3
philanthropia
1
philos
2
philosophos
1
phorein
1
phos
1
phthéngesthai
2
phuein
4
phulon
1
phylassein
1
physis
4
phyton
1
phēmi
2
phōnē
2
planasthai
1
planetes
1
plateîa
1
pleon
1
pleonastikos
1
plethein
1
plethore
1
plásma
1
plḗssein
1
podion
1
poiein
2
poietike
1