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

Word Unit: lexico-, lexi-, lex-, -lexia, -lexias, -lexic, -lectic, -lexis + (Greek: a word; a saying, a phrase; speaking, speech).

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


Word Unit: liber- (Latin: free).

Word Unit: libido-, libidi-, libid- (Latin: sexual lust, lascivious, full of desire, sensual passion; sexual instinct).

Word Unit: libr-, libel + (Latin: book; originally, the "inner bark of a tree", whence "the text written on this", "collection of leaves for writing", and finally "book").

Related book unit: biblio-.


Word Unit: libra-, liber-, libri- + (Latin: balance; to be balanced; level, make even; Roman pound).

Word Unit: Libraries: Library Origins and Developments through the Centuries (the way they were in ancient times and are in the present and potentials for the future).

Word Unit: licit-, licen-, leis- + (Latin: to be allowed; permitted; unrestrained).

Word Unit: lieno-, lien- + (Greek > Latin: spleen; a combining form denoting relationship to the spleen).

Word Unit: lig- + (Latin: tie, bind).

Word Unit: ligni-, lign- (Latin: wood).

Related "wood" word units: hylo-; xylo-.


Word Unit: Limbo, Part 1 (Latin: on the border (of hell); form of limbus, border, edge).

Word Unit: Limbo, Part 2 (Latin: on the border (of hell); form of limbus, border, edge).

Word Unit: limi-, lim- (Latin: mud).

Word Unit: limin, lim- (Latin: threshold [of consciousness]; boundary, limit).

Word Unit: limno-, limn- (Greek: lake, marshy lake, pool, marsh).

Word Unit: limo-, lim- (Greek: hunger, appetite).

Word Unit: linguo-, lingu-, lingua-, -linguist, -linguistic, -linguistical, -linguistically + (Latin: literally tongue; and by extension, speech, language).
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; 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: lino-, lin-, line- (Greek > Latin: line, thread, string, cord, net).

Word Unit: linqu-, lict- (Latin: to leave, to abandon).

Word Unit: lipo-, leip-, leips-, lips- (Greek, elleipsis, elleipo, elleipein; Latin, ellipsis: abandon, to leave [behind]; fail; lack, lacking; be wanting).

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