Many words are made up of a root (or base word) and a prefix. Some words also have a suffix. For example, the root word port means to carry or to bear. Attach the prefix ex, meaning out or out of, and you have the word export, to carry out. Attach the prefix im,meaning in or into and you have import, to carry in. Attach the prefix trans, meaning across, and you have transport, meaning to carry across. Now let's attach the suffix able, meaning able to be, and you have importable, exportable, and transportable.
The very words prefix and suffix are good examples, too. Pre means before and fix means to fasten or attach, so quite literally, a prefix is something attached to the beginning of something else. Sufis a variant of sub, below or under, so a suffix is something fastened underneath something else (in this case, behind the root). By learning the common roots and prefixes (and a few suffixes) you will be able to discern the meaning of many new words almost immediately. (But do look them up for confirmation.) Take the word abject, for example. If you know that abmeans away or down and ject means to throw, you can easily figure out that abject doesn't mean something happy. Rather abject's root meaning of thrown down is quite close to the dictionary defintion of cast down in spirit or sunk into depression.
Now that you have learned that ject means to throw, think how many words you can define almost immediately: reject, project, inject, subject, eject, and so on. Roots are a real key to understanding the meaning of new words you come across in your reading.
Note that some modern words are formed by using abbreviated forms of other words. Thus, we see the use of the letter ifor Internet in iPhone, iPod, and iTunes, indicating that these items or services work with the internet. Similarly, the use of e for electronic appears in words such as elearning (and various forms: eLearning, E-Learning, and so on), e-commerce, and e-business. The "e-terms" seem to have been coined before the "i-terms" became popular. And note that most of the "i-terms" are trademarks, while the others are general descriptors: "I'm going to download some iTunes from Apple's e-commerce site because I love e-music." At any rate, these abbreviated forms are not traditional prefixes, but because they are indeed attached to the front of what amounts to root words, they could be considered functional prefixes.
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The word "viaduct" has "via" as the Latin root. It comes from the Latin words "via" meaning "road" or "way" and "ductus" meaning "leading" or "conveying".
A few words with the root word LUNA are: lunatic lunar
Some words that have the same root words as poverty include: Impoverished Impoverishment Impoverish
Some words beginning with the root word "lab" are:LabelLabor/LabourLaboriousLaboriouslyLaboratoryLabradorLabyrinth
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Viable, Viaduct
There are a few words that end with the word via. There is the country of Bolivia, eluvia, diluvia; alluvia are just some of the words that end with via.
The word "viaduct" has "via" as the Latin root. It comes from the Latin words "via" meaning "road" or "way" and "ductus" meaning "leading" or "conveying".
Some words that contain the root "locus" are local, or dislocate.
orthodox, paradox, and doxology are some words with the stem root dox in it.
Some root words for "therm" include "thermo" and "thermometer."
A few words with the root word LUNA are: lunatic lunar
Some words with nautical:AeronauticalAstronautical
words with the root stract: * abstract * distract
Some words that have the same root words as poverty include: Impoverished Impoverishment Impoverish
Some words beginning with the root word "lab" are:LabelLabor/LabourLaboriousLaboriouslyLaboratoryLabradorLabyrinth
root Answewr: If you mean words that contain the root "scop"...telescope, microscope, periscope...