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

Word Unit: Calendar, Septembris (September, now the ninth month).

Word Unit: Calendar,The Whole Ball of Wax (meaning and origin).


Word Unit: callus-, callous- + (Latin: hardened skin, thick skin; a knob).

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving the "skin": chorio-; cicatri- (scar); cori-; cuti-; hymen-; lepido- (scab, scale); papulo- (pimple); psoro- (itch, mange); pustu- (blister, pimple); rhytid- (wrinkle); scabio- (mange, itchy); sebo- (grease, oil).


Word Unit: calori-, calor-, calo-, cal-, cale- (Latin: heat, warm; related to caust).

Word Unit: calque + (Latin: calx, heel, to tread; through Italian and French: an imitation, tracing).

Word Unit: calyc-, calyci-, calyx- + (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"; also a reference to the "cup-shaped ring of sepals encasing a flower bud").

Word Unit: calypto-, calypt- (Greek: covered, cover, hide, hidden, conceal, concealed).

Word Unit: camer- + (Latin: chamber; from Greek kamara, anything with a vaulted or arched cover; a vault, arched ceiling, or roof).

Word Unit: camp (Latin: flat space, plain; of or pertaining to fields).

Word Unit: campylo- (Greek: crooked, bent).

Word Unit: cancero-, cancer-, canceri-, cancri-, cancro- (Latin: crab; malignant tumor).

Word Unit: cand-, can-, cend- (Latin: glow, glitter, shine; white).

Word Unit: candle- (Latin: taper).

Word Unit: cani-, can- (Latin: dog).

Related "dog" word family: cyno-, kyno-.


Word Unit: cannabi-, cannab- + (Greek: hemp; of or pertaining to hemp's chemical components or derivatives.).

Word Unit: cant-, chant- (Latin: sing).

Word Unit: cantho-, canth- (Greek > Latin: corner of the eye).

Word Unit: cap-, cip-, capt-, cept-, ceive, -ceipt, -ceit, -cipient (Latin: catch, seize, take, take hold of, receive, contain, take, hold; caught, taken prisoner).

Word Unit: capillaro-, capillar-, capillario-, capilli-, capill- (Latin: of, pertaining to, or resembling hair; minute [hairlike] blood vessels that connect the arterioles and the venules).

Links to other hair-related units: alopec-; barba-; Beards; chaeto-; cirro-; coife; crino-; Hair & Beard Styles; hirsute; pilo-; pogo-; tricho-; villi-.


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