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

Word Unit: -machy, -machia, -machist, -machic, -machical + (Greek: a suffix; battle, war, contest, fight).

Related "war, war-like" or "battle" word units: areo-; belli-; milit-.


Word Unit: macro-, macr- (Greek: large, great; long [in extent or duration]; enlarged, or elongated, long [in length]; abnormally large).

Related "big, large, great" words: grand-; magni-; major-; maxi-; mega-; megalo-.


Word Unit: macul-, maculat- (Latin: spot, mark, stain, blot, blemish, mesh).

Word Unit: magist-, master- + (Latin: magister, chief, head, leader; from Latin magnus, "great").

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "master, lead, leading, ruler, ruling, govern": -agogic; agon-; arch-; -crat; dom-; gov-; poten-; regi-; tyran-.


Word Unit: magnet-, magneto- + (Greek: Magnesian [stone]; Magnesia having been a mineral-rich region of Thessaly).

Word Unit: magni-, magn- + (Latin: large, big, great).

Related "big, large, great" words: grand-; macro-; major-; maxi-; mega-; megalo-.


Word Unit: maieut-, maieuto- (Greek: pertaining to midwifery; obstetric; serving to elicit ideas [said of the Socratic method of teaching]).

Word Unit: major- (Latin: larger, greater).

Related "big, large, great" words: grand-; macro-; magni-; maxi-; mega-; megalo-.


Word Unit: mal-, male-, mali- (Latin: bad, badly, harsh, wrong; ill; evil; abnormal, defective; used primarily as a prefix).

Word Unit: mala- + (Latin: cheek, cheekbone).

Word Unit: malaco-, malac-, malako-, -malacia + (Greek: soft, softness; abnormal softening, soft-bodied).

Word Unit: Malapropisms (Ludicrous-English Caused by Blunders and Incompetence).


Word Unit: Malaria: prevention and treatment (it holds back human and economic development).

Word Unit: malaxo-, malax- (Latin: to soften, softening; to mollify; a kneading movement used in massage; stroking, caressing, love play).

Word Unit: malleo-, malle- (Latin: hammer).

Word Unit: mammill-, mammilli- (Greek > Latin: breast, nipple).

Word Unit: mammo-, mamm-, mammi- (Greek Latin: breast).

Word Unit: mana-, manat- + (Latin: flow out, to issue forth, to run).

Word Unit: -mancy, -mancer, -mantic, -mantical + (Greek: used as a suffix; divination, prophecy; to interpret signs so “practical” decisions can be made [related to -mania]).

Related "divination, sorcery, fortune telling, omens" word units: auspic-; fa-, fate; Fates in action; futur-; omen; sorc-, sorcery.


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