Latin 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.
Latin (5848)
philosophus
1
phoenīx
1
physica
3
picta
1
pictūra
1
pietas
5
pietās
2
pila
1
pilo
1
pilosus
1
pilus
1
pinguis
1
pingō
2
pinna
2
pinnaculum
1
pipio
1
pipire
1
pirum
1
piscis
1
pius
5
pix
2
placere
4
placeō
2
planaris
1
planctus
4
planeta
1
planetarius
1
plangere
4
planta
6
plantare
1
plantatio
1
plantāre
1
plantō
1
planus
6
plasticus
1
plastrum
1
platanus
1
platea
2
platēa
1
plaudere
5
plaudite
1
plausibilis
3
plectere
7
plegium
1
plenitatem
1
plenus
3
plere
9
plicare
20
plicāre
7
plorare
3
pluma
2
plumbarius
1
plumbum
3
plumbārius
1
pluralis
1
plus
2
plāga
1
plānus
1
plēnus
1
plēre
3
plūma
1
plūmāre
1
podium
1
poena
11
poenalis
2
poenālis
1
poeticus
1
polaris
1
polio
1
polire
3
polluere
2
pollūtiō
1
pollūtum
1
polītīa
3
pomum
1
ponderare
4
ponderāre
1
pondus
4
pondō
1
ponere
37
pontō
1
popularitas
1
populāris
1
porcinus
1
porcus
4
porta
1
portare
11
portendere
1
porticus
2
portio
7
portus
4
portābilis
1
portāre
3
positio
1
positivus
1
positiō
1