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Word Unit: leg-, lex (Latin: pertaining to the law, legal).

Word Unit: legi-, -leg-, -ligi-, -lig-, -lect-, -lectic, -lection + (Latin: read, readable [to choose words; to gather, to collect; to pick out; to read, to recite]).

Related "word, words" units: etym-; lexico-; locu-; logo-; onomato-; -onym; verbo-.

Word Unit: leio-, lei-, li-, lio- (Greek: smooth).

Word Unit: Leisure time (Are people too busy for leisure?).

Word Unit: lemma-, lemmata- + (Greek > Latin: to take [something for granted]; an assumption taken for granted; premise; anything taken).

Word Unit: lemmo-, lemm-, lemma- + (Greek: sheath, husk).

Word Unit: lent-, lenta-, lenti- + (Latin: slow, sluggish, immovable).

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving "slow, slowness, slow of, sluggish": dys-; tard-.

Word Unit: lenti-, lent-, lens- + (Latin: lens, lentil).

Related references to "eye" or "eye part" word families: blepharo-; core-; corneo-; eye, eyes; irido-; lenticulo-; ocelli-; oculo-; op-, -optic; ophthalmo-; phaco-; pupillo-; retino-; uveo-.

Word Unit: lenticulo-, lenticul- + (Latin: lentil-shaped, lentil; a term later used to refer to "the lentil-shaped lens of the eye").

Related references to "eye" or "eye part" word families: blepharo-; core-; corneo-; eye, eyes; irido-; lenti-, lens-; ocelli-; oculo-; op-, -optic; ophthalmo-; phaco-; pupillo-; retino-; uveo-.

Word Unit: lepido-, lepid-, lepo-, -lepis, lepro-, lepr- + (Greek > Latin lepra: flake, scale, scaly, scabby).

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

Word Unit: lepidopter- + (Greek: moths, butterflies; a combination of lepido-, "flake" or "scale" and ptero, "wing").

This lepidopter- group of words comes directly from the lepido- unit of words.

A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, or indirectly, with: "insects, bugs, worms; invertebrates": aphidi-; api-; ascari-; culci-; Dung Beetle Survival; Dung Beetles Important; Eating Worms; entomo-; formic-; Guinea worms; helmintho-; insecto-; Insects: Importance; isopter-; meliss-; mosquito; Mosquito, other Languages; Mosquitoes, Pt. 1; Mosquitoes, Pt. 2; myrmeco-; scarab; scoleco-; sphec-; taeni-; termit-; vermo-.

Word Unit: lepor- (Latin: rabbit, hare).

Word Unit: -lepsy, -lepsia, -lepsis, -leptic (Greek: a suffix; a violent attack, a seizing).

Word Unit: lept-, lepto- (Greek: thin, small, fine, delicate, mild; from "peeled, husked"; used primarily in the sense of "abnormally thin, narrow, slender, or delicate").

Word Unit: lesbi- (Greek > Latin: Greek Lésbios through Latin Lesbius; lesbian; homosexual relations between women).

Word Unit: lethal- + (Latin: deadly, mortal).

Related "death, dead; kill" units: -cide; mort-; neci-; necro-; phono-; thanato-.

Word Unit: letho-, leth- + (Greek > Latin: lie hidden, secret; forgetfulness, forget, inactive through forgetfulness; also sleepy, drowsy, dull, sluggish).

Related "sleep" units: dorm-; hypno-; narco-; oneiro- (dream); somni-; sopor-.

Etymologically related "forget, forgetfulness" word families: aletho-; oblivio-.

Related "memory, remember" word families: memor-; mne-.

Word Unit: leuco-, leuc-, leuko-, leuk-, -leukemia (Greek: white; the primary meaning now is the color "white"; but it comes from "light, clear, bright").

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "white": albo-; albumino-.

Word Unit: lev-, levi- (Latin: light in weight, lightness; to raise, to lift).

Word Unit: levo- (laevo-, British) (Latin: left, to the left; toward, or on the left side).

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