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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: clast-, clas-, -clastic, -clast, -clase, -clasia, -clasis, -clasis, -clasmic, -clasm (Greek: break, break in pieces; broken, broken in pieces, crush).

Related break, broken-word units: frag-; rupt-.


Word Unit: clathr-, clathro- + (Greek > Latin: bars, lattice, grate; used in the sense of "lattice[d], latticelike").

Word Unit: claustro-, claustr- (Latin: lock, barrier; close, shut).

Word Unit: clavi- clav- (key) (Latin: key; pertaining to the collarbone [so named because of its keylike shape]).

Word Unit: clavi-, clav- (stick) + (Latin: knotty stick, club).

Word Unit: -cle + (Latin: small, insignificant).

Word Unit: -cle, -cul (Latin: result of the act of, means of).

Word Unit: 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).

Word Unit: cleisto-, cleist-, clisto-, clist-, cli-, clei- (Greek: closed, shut).

Word Unit: cleithr-, cleithro- + (Greek: bar for closing a door; to shut, to close).

Word Unit: clemen-, clement- + (Latin: mild, calm; calmness, gentleness, placid).


Word Unit: cler-, clero- + (Greek: lot, allotment, inheritance).

Word Unit: clien-, client- (Latin: follower, retainer).

Word Unit: 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).

Word Unit: clino-, clin-, -clinal, -cline, -clinic (Greek: bed; slope, slant; to lean, leaning; an ecological term; in the sense of a slope or gradient ).

Word Unit: clitorid-, clitoro-, clitor- (Greek: kleiein, "to close", "enclose" and kleis, "key").

Word Unit: cliv- + (Latin: slope, slanting up or down).

Word Unit: clon-, clono-, -cloner, -clonal, -clonally + (Greek: twig; later, in modern usage: "exact duplicate, carbon copy, replica").

Word Unit: clon-, clono-, clonus- + (Greek > Medical Latin: muscle spasm; to move violently; turmoil).

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