7th Grade EL Root Words

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• tree

• arbor,  

  arboris

• to hear

• aud

• love

• assess

• water

• amo,  

  amatum

• to test

• aqua

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• time

• bene,  

  boun, bon

• good

• consist

• believe

• chronos  

  (chron)

• adhering to the  

  same principles

• bonus

• good, well

• cred

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• of a household

• familiaris

• people

• effectivus

• practical

• dem(os)

• make, do

• dendron

• tree

• facio,  

  factum,  

  fy, fier

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• dwell, live

• hydros  

  (hydr)

• create

• identitas

• attach

• habitare

• water

• figo, fixum

• same

• gen

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• word, speech

• kinesis,  

  cinema

• moon

• logos

• movement

• jungo,  

  junctum

• join

• luna

• fire

• ignis

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• to say, to tell

• phobos

• fear

• magnus

• large, big

• occupare

• love

• philia,  

  phile

• to seize, take hold  of, make one’s  

  own

• narr

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• place, street,  

  area

• platea

• put, place

• port

• know

• scribe  

  (scrib),  

  scriptum  

  (script)

• to write

• scio,  

  scitum  

  (sci)

• to carry

• pono,  

  postum  

  (pos,  

  post)

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• art and craft

• spectro,  

  spect,  

  spec

• to see, watch,  

  observe

• tempus,  

  temporis

• sound

• testis,  

  testari,  

  testor

• assert

• sonus

• time

• tech

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• empty

• vocare  

  (voc, vok)

• word

• verbum

• to call or summon

• thermos  

  (therm)

• heat

• vac