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

Related word families intertwined with "to place, placing, to put; to add; to stay; to attach" word units: fix-; prosth-; stato-; the-, thes-.


Word Unit: pono-, pon-, -ponic, -ponics + (Greek: toil, labor, work hard, fatigue; exertion; also, suffering, pain).

Cross references related to "work, toil" word families: argo-; ergasio-; ergo-; labor-; oper-; urg-.


Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: -agra; algesi-; algo-; angina-; dolor-; Masochism; noci-; odyno-; poen-; Sadism.


Word Unit: ponto-, pont-, pon- (Latin: bridge).

Word Unit: popu- (Latin: people).

Related "people, human" word units: anthropo-; demo-; ethno-; ochlo-; publi-.


Word Unit: porc-, pork- (Latin: pig, hog).

Word Unit: porno-, porn- + (Greek: harlot, prostitute, whore).

Related "sex, sexism, sexual lust, sexual deviation" word units: aphrodi-; -cest-; eroto-; lagneuo-; -lagnia; masochism; Sadism-; satyr-; sex-; sodom-; whore.


Word Unit: poro-, por-, pori- (Greek > Latin > Old French: passageway, used primarily as "a pore, a small orifice"; opening; cavity, tract).

Word Unit: port- (Latin: door, gate, entrance, harbor).

Word Unit: port-, portat- (Latin: carry, bring, bear).

Word Unit: Portmanteau (examples of portmanteau combinations).

Word Unit: -posia, -posium (Greek > Latin: drinking; a word termination [suffix] denoting a relationship to drinking or the intake of fluids).

Word Unit: poso- (Greek: how much? how great?).

Word Unit: Posse Comitatus (Act of 1878).

Word Unit: post- (Latin: after, behind, later, subsequent; often used as a prefix).

Word Unit: postero-, poster- (Latin: after, behind, following; denoting relationship to the posterior [back] part; usually used as a prefix).

Word Unit: Posters: Something to Think About (posters worth considering).

Word Unit: postul- (Latin: to demand, to ask).

Word Unit: potamo-, potam- (Greek: river, stream).

Word Unit: potash (Dutch > New Latin: potassium carbonate).

Word Unit: poten-, pot-, poss-, -potent, -potence, -potency, -potential + (Latin: power, strength, ability, able; having authority over; rule over, command of).

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


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