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Ca
- caco-, kako- words (bad, harsh, wrong; incorrect; unpleasant): alexicacon to kakistocracy
- cad-, cas-, cid- (Latin: to fall, befall)
- caduceus (Latin: the wand of a herald, herald's staff; specifically, the wand of Hermes [Greek] and Mercury [Latin])
- calcaneo-, calcane- (Latin: heel bone [back of the tarsus])
- calcar-, calcari- (Latin: spur; heel)
- calcareo-, calcare-, calcar-, calcari- (Latin: of or pertaining to lime; calcium)
- calci-, calc-, calcane-, calcio-, calco-, calx (Latin: lime, calcium; heel, bone of the tarsus; to tread [derived from calx, calcis, limestone, lime, pebble; from Greek words halix and psephos meaning "small stone, pebble"])
- Calendars in Roman, Old Style, and Gregorian, New Style formats.
- calli-, cali-, callo-, calo-, kalli-, kali-, kalo-, kaleido- (Greek: kalos, beautiful)
- callus [callous] (Latin: hardened skin; knob)
- calori-, calor-, calo-, cal-, cale- (Latin: heat, warm; related to caust)
- calque [KALK] (Latin: calx, heel, to tread; through Italian and French: an imitation, tracing)
- calyc-, calyci- (Greek: shell; husk; cup [of a flower], used primarily in the specialized senses of "pertaining to or of a cup-shaped bodily organ or cavity")
- calypto-, calypt- (Greek: covered, cover, hide, hidden, conceal, concealed)
- calyx- (Greek > Latin: the cup or calyx of a flower)
- camer- (Latin: chamber)
- camp (Latin: flat space, plain; of or pertaining to fields)
- campo- (Greek: caterpillar; from a Greek root meaning "bend, curve")
- campto-, campt-, campo-, campyl- (Greek: bend, curve; bent)
- campylo- (Greek: crooked, bent)
- cancero-, cancer-, canceri-, cancri-, cancro- (Latin: crab; malignant tumor)
- cancri-, cancro- (Latin: tumor)
- cand-, can-, cend- (Latin: glow; white)
- candle- (Latin: taper)
- cani-, can- (Latin: dog)
- cannabi-, cannab- (Greek: hemp)
- cant-, chant- (Latin: sing)
- cantho-, canth- (Greek > Latin: corner of the eye)
- cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient (Latin: catch, seize, take hold of, contain, take, hold)
- capillaro-, capillar-, capillario-, capilli-, capill- (Latin: of, pertaining to, or resembling hair; minute [hairlike] blood vessels that connect the arterioles and the venules)
- capit-, capt-, ceps-, chapt-, chef, cip-, -cup- (Latin: head, leader, chief, or first)
- capno-, capn- (smoke, vapor, sooty; carbon dioxide) words: acapnia to normocapnia
- Capnomania and fumimania, tobacco or smoking addictions words, part 2 of 4.
- Capnomania and fumimania, tobacco or smoking addictions words, part 3 of 4.
- Capnomania and fumimania, tobacco or smoking addictions, part 4 of 4.
- Capnomania and fumimania, tobacco or smoking addictions, words, part 1 of 4.
- Capnophobia, Fear of Smoking words, part 1 of 4.
- Capnophobia, Fear of Smoking words, part 2 of 4.
- Capnophobia, Fear of Smoking words, part 4 of 4.
- Capnophobia, Fear of Smoking, part 3 of 4.
- capri-, capr- (Latin: goat, resembling a goat)
- caps- (Latin: box)
- capsulo-, capsul- (Latin: enveloping structure)
- capt- (Latin: caught, taken prisoner; catch, seize, take hold of, take, receive, hold, contain)
- carbo-, carb- (Latin: coal, charcoal)
- carcino-, carcin- (Greek: cancer ["crab"])
- cardin- (Latin: hinge, hinge of a door, pivot, that on which something turns; thus, principal, chief)
- cardio-, cardi-, card- (Greek: heart, pertaining to the heart)
- carin- (Latin: keel)
- carno-, carn-, carne-, carni- (Latin: flesh, meat)
- carpho- (Greek: straw, dry stock; from karphein, to wither, wrinkle, dry)
- carpo-, carp-, -carp, -carpic, -carpium, -carpous, -carpus (Greek: fruit [or similar reproductive result]; to cut, to pluck)
- carpo-, carp-, -carpals, -carpus (Greek: wrist [literally, "that which turns"])
- carto- (Greek > Latin: map, card [playing]; piece of papyrus, paper)
- carus (masculine)
- case- (Latin: cheese)
- castrat-, castra- (Latin: to cut, geld, spay; to remove the testicles or ovaries of)
- cata-, cat-, cath-, kata- (Greek: down, downward; under, lower; against; entirely, in accordance with, completely, back; used as a prefix)
- cathar-, cathart-, cathars- (Greek: to purge, to purify, or to cleanse; purification; cleansing)
- catheter- (Greek > Latin: to let down, thrust in [kata, down plus hienai, to send])
- catoptro-, catoptr- (Greek: mirror; from kat-[a] "against, back" plus op-[tos] "seen" plus the noun-forming suffix -tron)
- caudo-, caud- (Latin: tail, toward the tail; downward)
- caulo-, cauli-, caul- (Greek > Latin: stem, stalk)
- caust-, caus-, caut-, cauter-, cau- (Greek: fire, burn; from kauter, "branding iron")
- cautel- (Latin: caution; precaution; wary, careful, heedful)
- caval- (Latin: horse [caballus, a horseman; by extension, a gentleman serving as a lady's escort. Also said to mean: "an inferior horse, a nag"] > Italian [caballeria from caballo, "horse"] > French [cavalerie])
- cavo-, cava-, cavi-, cav- (Latin: hollow)
Ce
- ceco-, cec-, caeco-, caec- (Latin: blind, blind gut [first part of the large intestine, forming a dilated pouch into which open the ileum, the colon, and the appendix vermiformis]; any blind pouch)
- -cede, -ceed, -cess, -cease (Latin: : a suffix; go, go away, yield, give up, withdraw)
- -cele (Greek: a suffix; hernia, swelling)
- celer- (Latin: fast, speed, swift, rapid)
- celest- (Latin: heaven, sky)
- celli- (Latin: storeroom, chamber, closet; by extension, of or pertaining to a cell, a microscopic protoplasmic mass made up of a nucleus enclosed in a semipermeable membrane)
- cellulo-, celluli-, cellul- (Latin: small storeroom)
- celo- (Greek: hollow; used chiefly in the sense of "concave; pertaining to a bodily cavity")
- celo-, cel-, kelo-, kel- (Greek: tumor, hernia)
- -cene (Greek: a suffix; new, denotes certain "recent" eons when naming geological periods)
- ceno-, caeno-, keno- (Greek: empty)
- ceno-, cen-, caeno-, caen-, caino-, cain-, kaino-, kain- (Greek: new, recent, fresh)
- ceno-, cene-, cen-, ceoen- ceoene-, coeno-, coen-, coino-, coin-, kaino-, kain-, koino-, koin- (Greek: common, shared)
- censor- (Latin: to reckon, assess, estimate, value, deem, judge; from censor, censere)
- censur- (Latin: judgment, criticism; from Latin, censura and French, censure)
- cente-, -centesis (Greek: often used as a suffix; perforation, puncture, or tapping, as with an aspirator or needle)
- centi-, cent- (Latin: hundred; a decimal prefix used in the international metric system for measurements)
- centro-, centr-, centri-, kentro- (Greek > Latin: center)
- cephalo-, cephal-, -cephalic, -cephalism, -cephalous, -cephaly; sometimes they are also written as: kephalo-, kephal-, etc. (Greek: head)
- cerato-, cerat-, kerato-, kerat-, ker-, kera-, kerat- (Greek: horn, horny tissue; cornea)
- cerauno-, kerauno- (Greek: thunderbolt, thunder, lightning [literally, "smasher, crusher"])
- cerc- (Greek: tail)
- cerebello-, cerebelli-, cerebell- (Latin: brain)
- cerebro-, cerebr-, cereb-, cerebri- (Latin: brain [that part of the brain that is concerned with the coordination of body movements])
- -cern-, -cret- (Latin: separate, sift, distinguish, understand, decide; separated, set apart)
- cero-, cer-, kero-, keri- (Greek: wax, waxy)
- cerule- (Latin: sky-blue color; dark blue, azure)
- cerum-, cerumini- (Greek: [from keros, beeswax, wax] formed of wax)
- cervi-, cerv- (Latin: deer)
- cervico-, cervici-, cervic-, cervi- (Latin: neck; head-joint, throat)
- ceto-, cet-, -cete, -ceti (Greek: whale or whales, as well as "dolphins" and "porpoises")
Ch
- cha- (Latin: to make warm, heat)
- chaeto-, chaet-, chaeti-, cheto-, chet- (Greek: spine, bristle; long, flowing hair])
- chalco-, chalc- (Greek: copper; brass)
- chalico-, chalic- (Greek: gravel, pebbles, rubble)
- chamae-, chame- (Greek: on the ground, low; by extension, "dwarflike")
- chaos (Greek > Latin: formless matter; especially from Greek, gulf, chasm, abyss, the rude unformed mass; and by extension, "confusion and disorder")
- charmo-, charm-, charmato- (Greek: joy, delight, gladness)
- cheilo-, cheil-, chilo-, chil- (Greek: lip, lips; edge or brim)
- cheimo-, cheim-, cheimato-, cheimat- (Greek: winter, winter-flowing)
- cheiro-, cheir-, chiro-, chir- (Greek: hand; one who moves the hands with regularity, as in pantomine)
- chela-, chelio-, cheli- (Greek: claw, pincer, hoof, talon)
- chelono-, chelon-, chelyo-, chely- (Greek: tortoise)
- Chemical Elements Chart
- Chemical Elements Table
- Chemical Elements words: actinium to bromine, part 1 of 8.
- Chemical Elements words: erbium to hydrogen, part 3 of 8.
- Chemical Elements words: indium to mendelevium, part 4 of 8.
- Chemical Elements words: mercury to platinum, part 5 of 8.
- Chemical Elements words: plutonium to samarium, part 6 of 8.
- Chemical Elements words: scandium to thorium, part 7 of 8.
- Chemical Elements words: thulium to zirconium, part 8 of 8.
- Chemical Elements: cadmium to einsteinium, part 2 of 8.
- chemo-, chem- (chemical actions or chemicals) words: agrichemical-thermochemistry
- chero-, cher- (Greek: to rejoice; gaiety, happiness)
- chi (Greek: twenty-second letter of the Greek alphabet)
- chiasto-, chiasm- (Greek: crossed, laid crosswise)
- chili- (Greek: thousand)
- chimno-, chimn-, chimono-, chimon-, chim-, chimo-, chimen- (Greek: winter)
- chiono-, chion- (Greek: snow, like snow)
- chirono- (Greek: 1. A centaur famous for his knowledge of plants. 2. Inferior, in want)
- chito-, chit-, chiton- (Greek: tunic, covering; a reference to the chemical constituent of crab and lobster shells)
- chlamydo-, chlamyd- (Greek: cloak, mantle; envelope)
- chledo-, chled- (Greek: debris, mud, dirt)
- chloro-, chlor- (Greek: Chloris, goddess; the color green, yellow-green, or light green)
- choano-, choan- (Greek: funnel)
- cholangio-, cholang-, cholange-, cholangi- (Greek: bile, gall plus angio-, vessel)
- cholecysto-, cyholecyst- (Latin: gall bladder)
- cholera-, choler-, choleri-, cholero- (Greek: disease in which the bodily humors [biles] are subject to violent discharge)
- cholo-, chol-, chole- (Greek: bile, gall)
- chondro-, chondr-, chrondrio-, chondri-, -chondriac, -chondrias, -chondromatous, -chondroma, -chondromas, -chondromata (Greek: groat, grain, any small rounded mass; cartilage, gristle, granule, or a relationship to cartilage)
- chordo-, chord-, cordo-, cord- (Greek: gut string [of a lyre]; used in an extended sense to mean sinew, flexible rod-shaped organ; string, cord)
- -chore, -choric, -chorous, -chory (Greek: a suffix; to spread, disperse; to withdraw, advance, go)
- choreo-, chore-, chorei-, choro-, -choreatic, -chorea, -choreal, -choreic (Greek: dance; in medicine, it is used to denote a nervous disorder of organic origin or from an infectious source)
- chorio-, chori- (Greek: skin, membrane, leather; protective fetal membrane)
- choro-, chor- (Greek: place, space, land; country, district)
- chremato-, chremat- (Greek: pertaining to money making; to transact business; goods, money)
- chrestomato-, chrestomat- (Greek: desire of learning; book containing select passages; literally, useful or practical learning)
- chromato-, chromat-, chromo-, chrom-, chro-, -chrome, -chromasia, -chromia, -chromatism, -chromatic, -chromatically, -chromy (Greek: color)
- chrono-, chron- (time) words: achronism to chronotropism, part 1 of 2.
- chrono-, chron- (time) words: dendrochronology to tephrochronology, part 2 of 2.
- chryso-, chrys- (Greek: the color gold, golden, golden yellow)
- chthon- (Greek: earth, of the earth, soil, dirt)
- chylo-, chyl-, chyli-, chy- (Greek > Latin: juice, pour; pertaining to chyle, the milky fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fat that is a product of the digestive process)
- chymo-, chym-, chymi-, chyl- (Greek: juice, liquid; from cheai, to pour; pertaining to chyme, the semifluid material resulting from the partial digestion of food)
Ci
- cibo-, -cibal (Latin: food, meal)
- cicatri-, cicatr- (Latin: scar)
- ciconi-, cicon- (Latin: stork)
- -cide, -cidal (kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; to cut down) words: aborticide to lupicide, part 1 of 2.
- -cide, -cidal (kill, killer; murder, to cause death, slayer; to cut down) words: magistricide to vulpicide, part 2 of 2.
- cilio-, cili-, cil- (Latin: the eyelid or its outer edge; hairs growing on the edges of the eyelids, eyelashes)
- cimic-, cimici- (Latin: bedbug)
- cine-, cinem-, cinema-, cinemat-, cinemato-, -cinesia, -cinesis, -cinetic, -cinesias, -cineses, -cinetical, -cinetically (Greek: move, movement, set in motion)
- ciner-, cine- (Latin: ashes)
- cingo-, cing-, -cinct (Latin: surrounding, to encircle, go around; bind, gird)
- ciono-, cion-, kiono-, kio- (Greek: uvula)
- circ- (Latin: circle [a ring; wheel])
- circum- (Latin: around, about, surrounding, on all sides; literally, "in a circle")
- cirro-, cirr-, cirri- (Greek: tuft of hair, fringe; by extension, filament, tendril)
- -cise, -cis, -cide (Latin: a suffix; to cut, cut)
- cit-, citat- (Latin: talk, speak, say; to put into quick motion, excite, provoke, call urgently; summon)
- civi-, civ-, cit- (Latin: city, citizen)
Cl
- clado-, clad- (Greek klados: shoot, young branch; branch; twig)
- clair- (Latin > French: "clear" perceiving through extrasensory perception)
- clam-, claim- (talk, call out, speak; shout) words: acclamation to unclaimed
- clandestine (Latin: secret, hidden)
- clari-, clar-, (Latin: clear, bright, shining, glorious)
- clasmato- (Greek: fragment, piece broken off)
- clast-, clas-, -clastic, -clast, -clase, -clasia, -clasis, -clasis, -clasmic, -clasm, -clysm (Greek: break, break in pieces; broken, broken in pieces, crush)
- clathro-, clathr- (Greek > Latin: bars, lattice, grate; used in the sense of "lattice[d], latticelike")
- claustro- (Latin: lock, barrier; close, shut)
- clavi- clav- (Latin: key; pertaining to the collarbone [so named because of its keylike shape])
- clavi-, clav- (Latin: knotty stick, club)
- -cle (Latin: a suffix; small, insignificant)
- -cle, -cul (Latin: a suffix; result of the act of, means of)
- cleido-, cleid-, clido-, clid- (Greek: key; a means of locking or a thing that locks [or unlocks] a door; a key, bar, or hook; a combining form that denotes the clavicle or collarbone)
- cleisto-, cleist-, clisto-, clist-, cli-, clei- (Greek: closed, shut)
- cleithro-, cleithr- (Greek: bar for closing a door; to shut, close)
- clero-, cler- (Greek: lot, allotment, inheritance)
- climato-, climo- (Greek: inclination, slope; the [supposed] slope of the earth from the equator towards the poles; hence, the latitudinal zone of the earth and prevailing weather in a given zone)
- clino-, clin-, -clinal, -cline (New Latin: an ecological term; in the sense of a slope or gradient)
- clino-, clin-, -clinal, -cline, -clinic (Greek: bed; slope, slant; lean, leaning)
- clitorid-, clitoro-, clitor- (Greek: kleiein, to close, enclose and kleis, key)
- clono-, clon-, -cloner, -clonal, -clonally (Greek: twig; later, in modern usage: "exact duplicate, carbon copy, replica")
- clono-, clon-, clonus- (Greek: muscle spasm)
- clud-, claud-, claus-, clos-, -clude, -clois, -cluding, -cluded, -clus, -clusion, -clusive (Latin: close, shut)
- clys (Greek: to wash; washing)
Cn
- cnemo-, cnem-, cnemi- (Greek: the part of the leg between the knee and the ankle)
- cnesto-, cneso-, cnes-, cniso-, cnis-, -cnesmia, -cnismo (Greek: scratch, tickle, itch, sting)
- cnido-, cnid- (Greek: nettle)
Co
- coagulo-, coagul- (Latin: to curdle; from a verb meaning "to bring together")
- cocco-, cocc-, -coccus, -cocci, -coccal, -cocca (Greek: bacteria; literally, a "berry, kernel")
- coccygo-, coccyg-, coccyge-, coccyo-, coccy- (Greek: cuckoo; the end of the vertebral column in man and in some apes; the rudiment of a tail)
- cochle-, cochl-, cochleo-, cochlio- (Greek: spiral shell, snail with a spiral shell; pertaining to the cochlea, the spiral tube in the inner ear)
- cocto-, coct- (Latin: to cook, to boil)
- codex-, codi-, cod- (Latin: a code of laws, a writing tablet; an account book; originally, "the trunk of a tree")
- coelio-, coelo-, coel-, -coele, coeli-, celeo-, cel-, cele-, celi-, celio- (Greek: abdomen [hollow, cavity of the body])
- cogni-, cogn-, cognosc- (Latin: know, learn)
- coimetro-, coimetr- (Greek: koimeterion, sleeping-room, burial-place)
- -cole, -colous (inhabit, live, dwell) words: agaricole to hylocole, part 1 of 2.
- -cole, -colous (inhabit, live, dwell): labidicole to zoocole, part 2 of 2.
- coleo-, cole- (Greek: sheath, scabbard)
- coll- (Latin: neck)
- collo-, coll-, colla- (Greek: glue)
- colo-, col- (Greek: colon or large intestine [that part which extends from the cecum to the rectum])
- colon-, -coln (Latin: estate, farm, settlement)
- colpo-, colp-, kolpo-, kolp- (Greek: womb, fold; vagina; from "bosom, lap, bosomlike hollow, womb")
- columba-, columb- (Latin: pidgeon or dove)
- com- [co-, cog-, col-, con-, cor-] (Latin: together, with; used as a prefix)
- coma (Greek: a deep, sound sleep, lethargy, trance without sleep)
- coma (Greek: hair of the head, tuft of hairs, hair, foliage)
- commu- (Latin: common, multitude and common people)
- concho-, conch-, conchi- (Greek > Latin: shell, sea shells; shell-like bone or cavity of the body)
- condylo-, condyl- (Greek: knuckle, knucklelike knob, knob)
- conio-, coni-, -coniosis, -conite, konio-, koni-, kono-, kon- (Greek: dust; as seen in many words)
- contra-, contro-, counter, contre- (Latin: against, opposed to, opposite, contrary; used as a prefix)
- contrectato-, contrectat-, contrecto-, contrect- (Latin: to touch; handle; to take hold of; used as a prefix)
- copro-, copr-, kopro-, kopr- (Greek: feces, dung, excrement; filth, dirt)
- cor-, cord-, cour- (Latin: heart)
- coraco-, corac- (Greek: crowlike; used in the specialized sense of "pertaining to, or connected to the coracoid, the bony process that forms part of the scapular arch [and is so named because its shape resembles that of a crow's beak"])
- core-, cor- (Greek: pupil of the eye)
- cori- (Latin: skin)
- corm- (Greek: trunk of a tree or body)
- corn- (Latin: horn, horny)
- corneo-, corne- (Latin: horny, hornlike; horny [tissue] pertaining to the cornea, the horny transparent anterior portion of the external covering of the eye)
- cornu, corni- (Latin: horn)
- coron, coroll- (Latin: garland, wreath, crown; from a Greek source meaning, "anything curved; a wreath, garland")
- corp-, corpor-, corpus- (Latin: body)
- cortico-, cortic-, cort-, cortex (Latin: bark, rind; literally, that which is "stripped off"; used in its extended senses, chief among these being "pertaining to the outer layer of a bodily organ, especially the brain")
- coscino- (Greek: sieve)
- cosmo-, cosm-, cosmico-, cosm, -cosmia, -cosmos, -cosmic, -cosmics, -cosmical, -cosmology, -cosms (Greek: world, universe [from its "perfect order and arrangement"]; to order, arrange, adorn; well-ordered, regular)
- costo-, cost-, costi- (Latin: rib, ribs; side; coast)
- cotylo-, cotyl- (Greek: cup, any cup-shaped hollow; a seed leaf)
- coxa-, coxo-, cox- (Latin: hip [anatomy], hip-bone, hip joint)
Cr
- cra- (Greek: to mix)
- cranio-, crani-, cran- (Greek: head, skull)
- -crat, -cracy (govern, rule; power) words: albocracy to gynecocracy, part 1 of 2.
- -crat, -cracy (govern, rule; power) words: ethnarch to xenocracy, part 2 of 2.
- crauno- (Greek: well, spring)
- crea-, creato-, creo-, cre-, creatin-, kreo-, kreato- (Greek: flesh, meat)
- cred-, creed- (believe, trust) words: accredit-uncreditable
- crema- (Latin: burn [fire])
- Cremation of Sam McGee Poem
- cremno-, cremn- (Latin: an overhanging bank, precipice, cliff, crag)
- cremo-, crem-, cremasto-, cremast- (Greek: to hang; hung, hung up)
- cren- (Latin: notch)
- cren-, cret-, cre- (Latin: to separate, to distinguish, to secrete)
- creno-, cren-, crauno-, crouno- (Greek: well head, spring, fountain, mineral spring)
- creo-, cre-, creato-, crea-, creatin-, kreo-, kreato- (Gk., flesh, meat)
- crepit- (Latin: to creak, to crackle)
- crepuscu-, crepusc- (Latin: twilight, dusky, dawn; in the evening or early-morning hours)
- cresc-, crea-, -cret, -crease, -cru (Latin: increase, grow)
- crico-, cric- (Greek: ring; used in the extended sense of pertaining to the [ring-shaped] cartilage that forms the back and lower part of the laryngeal cavity)
- crim-, crimino- (Latin: judicial decision, verdict, object of reproach, offense)
- crino-, crin- (Greek: to secrete, exude)
- crino-,crin-, crini- (Latin: hair)
- crio- (Greek: ram)
- cris-, crit-, cri- (Greek: a separating, putting apart; a decision; to judge)
- crist- (Latin: crest)
- crot- (Greek: pulse beat)
- croustico-, crousto-, crusto-, croust-, crust-, kroustico-, krousto-, kroust-, krust- (Greek: to stretch; stretch out; to beat, strike)
- cruci-, crux (Latin: cross, crosslike; from the gallows tree)
- -crum (Latin: a suffix; result of the act of, means of)
- crymo-, crym-, krymo-, krym- (Greek: cold, frost, chill)
- cryo-, cry-, kryo-, kry- (cold, freezing) words: cryalgesia to cryolysis, part 1 of 2.
- cryo-, cry-, kryo-, kry- (cold, freezing) words: cryomorphology to urinocryoscopy, part 2 of 2.
- crypto-, crypt- (secret, hidden) words: allocryptic to xylocryptite
- crystallo-, crystall- (Greek: crystal, ice, freeze, congeal, frost; icelike, transparent; [especially in reference to a mineral or glass])
Ct
Cu
- cubi-, cub-, cumb-, cubit- (Latin: to lie [in a horizontal position or posture])
- culci-, culici-, culc- (Latin: gnat, mosquito)
- -cule, -cula, -culo, -culus, -culum (Latin: a suffix; small, tiny; also, result of the act of, means of)
- culpa- (Latin: blame; responsible for wrong or error)
- cult-, -culture (Latin: to care for, to till [the ground], to cherish; to dwell, to inhabit)
- cultri-, cultr- (Latin: knife)
- cumulo-, cumul-, cumuli- (Latin: a heap, heap up)
- cuneo-, cune-, cunei- (Latin: wedge)
- cupro-, cupr-, cupri- (Latin: copper; from Cyprus, specifically, "copper")
- cur(r)
- cura-, cur- (Latin: heal, cure [care for, give attention to, to take care of])
- curvi- (Latin: crooked, bent)
- cuspid- (Latin: point)
- cuss- (Latin: shake, strike)
- cuti-, cut-, cutan-, cutis (Latin: skin)
Cy
- -cy (singular)
- cyano-, cyan-, kyano-, kyan- (Greek: the color blue, dark blue)
- cyatho-, cyath-, cyathi- (Greek: cup)
- Cyber (helmsman, governor) words: biocybernetics to cyborg
- cyclo-, cycl-, -cycle, -cyclic, -cyclical, -cycles (Greek: around, round, circle, circular)
- cye-, cyo- (Greek: to be pregnant)
- cyg- (Latin: swan)
- cylindro-, cylindr-, cylindri- (Greek: roller, roller-shaped figure; used in the sense of being "roller-shaped, column-shaped")
- cymo-, cym-, cymo- (Greek: wave; sprout)
- cyno-, cyn-, kyno-, kyn- (Greek: dog)
- cyo-, kyo- (Greek: embryo, fetus; pertaining to pregnancy or to a fetus)
- cyprido-, cyprid-, cypri-, cyprid-, (Greek: Kyris, a name for Venus or Aphrodite; lewd or licentious woman)
- cyrto-, cyrt-, kyrto-, kyrt- (Greek: bent, curved)
- cysto-, cyst-, cysti-, cystido- (Greek: sac or bladder which contains fluid [or gas, as in pneumatocyst]; urinary bladder)
- cythero-, cyther- (Greek: Kytheria; another name for Venus or Aphrodite)
- cyto-, cyt-, -cyte, cytio- (Greek: cell, hollow; used primarily in the extended sense of "animal or plant cell" [because cells were originally thought to be hollow])
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