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

Word Unit: dic-, dict- + (Latin: talk, speak, say, tell, declare; to proclaim).
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; voc-.


Word Unit: Dictionaries and Lexicons, Part One (historical and modern).

Word Unit: Dictionaries and Lexicons, Part Two (priority books for a better education).

Word Unit: Dictionary with a Touch of Humor (enjoying words with special points of view, sometimes humorous, and which are not found in a "regular" dictionary).

Word Unit: dictyo- (Greek: net, netlike).

Word Unit: didym- (Greek: twin; testicle).


Word Unit: digit-, digiti- + (Latin: finger, toe; from Greek daktylos).

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving the "toes" and "fingers": dactylo-; hallu-; phalang-.


Word Unit: dign-, dain- (Latin: worthy; to deem worthy or fit).

Word Unit: diko-, dik-, dico-, dic- + (Greek: a judge; right, order, law, manner; justice).

Word Unit: dino-, din- (Greek: fearful, frightful; terrible, powerful).

Word Unit: diphther- (Greek > Latin > French: leather, prepared hide, membrane).

Word Unit: diplo-, dipl- (Greek: double [two-fold]).

Word Unit: dipso-, -dipsia, -dipsy, -dipsias + (Greek: thirst, thirsty [toward "drink"]).

Related "drink" units: bib-; haust-; nectar-; poto-.


Word Unit: dire- + (Latin: fearful, awful, boding ill, ill-omened, horrible, terrible).

Word Unit: dis-, di-, dif- (Latin: apart, asunder; away, from; in different directions; utterly, completely).

Word Unit: discip- + (Latin: discipulus, pupil, apprentice; instruction, teaching, learning (to learn), knowledge).

Word Unit: disco-, disc-, disko-, disk- + (Greek > Latin: disk; round plate thrown in athletic competitions; used primarily in the extended sense of "something shaped like a round plate").

Word Unit: Dismal (bad days).

Word Unit: distric- (Latin: political or geographical division).

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