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

Word Unit: plum-, plumi-, -plume + (Latin: feather).

Related "feather, feather-like; soft down, plumage" word units: penna-; pinni-, pin-; pterido-; ptero-; ptilo-.


Word Unit: plumb-, plumbo-, plumbi- + (Latin: lead, Pb, [the metal]).

Word Unit: pluri-, plur-, plu- (Latin: more, many).

Word Unit: Pluto, Hades, Greek god; words from myths (Pluto, Roman god of wealth, ruled the dark underworld of myth; ninth planet from the sun).

Word Unit: pluto-, plut- + (Greek: wealth, wealthy, rich).

Word Unit: pluv-, pluvio-, pluvi- (Latin: rain).

Word Unit: plyno-, plyn-, plysi-, -plysis, plyto- + (Greek: wash, a washing; washtub, basin; by extension, irrigate, irrigation).

Related "wash" words: balneo-; clys-; luto-; lav-.


Word Unit: pneo-, -pnea, -pneic, -pnoea, -pnoeic, -pneo + (Greek: air, wind; breathing).

Word units related to breath and breathe: hal-; pneumato-; pneumo-; psych-; spiro.

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "air, wind": aello-; aeolo-; aero-; anemo-; atmo-; austro-; flat-, flatu-; phys-; pneumato-; turb-; vent-; zephyro-.


Word Unit: pneumato-, pneumat- (Greek: air, wind, breath; presence of air; spirit).

Word units related to breath and breathe: hal-; pneo-; pneumo-; psych-; spiro.

Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "air, wind": aello-; aeolo-; aero-; anemo-; atmo-; austro-; flat-, flatu-; phys-; pneo-, -pnea; turb-; vent-; zephyro-.


Word Unit: pneumo, pneum, pneumono, pneumon (Greek: lung [breath, breathe]).

Word units related to breath and breathe: hal-; pneo-; pneumato-; psych-; spiro.


Word Unit: pnigo-, pnig-, pnigmato-, pnigmat- + (Greek: choke, stifle, smother).

Word Unit: po-, poo-, -poa- (Greek: grass, a grassy place; meadow, meadows).

Related "foot, feet" units: melo-; ped-; planta-; -pus.


Word Unit: -poeia, -poie, -peia, -poiesis, -poesis, -poeic, -poetic, -poietic, -poetical, -poietical (Greek: making, producing, creating, creative, forming, formation).

Word Unit: Poem: Book Borrower (just one of many similar opinions about people who borrow books as compiled by Robert Service).

Word Unit: Poem: Dulce et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen challenges our thinking about whether it is really so sweet and fitting to die for one's country ).

Word Unit: Poem: If (a poem about self control and character development by Rudyard Kipling).

Word Unit: Poem: Invictus (taking responsibility for one’s destiny by William Ernest Henley).

Word Unit: Poem: Rendezvous with Death (said to be one of the greatest poems written during World War I by Alan Seeger).

Word Unit: Poem: Road Not Taken (two roads diverged or separated and went in different directions according to Robert Frost).

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