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

Word Unit: Prosthetic Devices (using cybernetic devices to enhance human mobility ).

Word Unit: proter-, protero- + (Greek: former, earlier, older).

Word Unit: proto-, prot- (Greek: first, original; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: pruri-, prur-, prurit- + (Latin: itch, itching; be wanton, be eager for).

Word Unit: psammo-, psamm-, psamme- (Greek: sand).

Word Unit: psellism-, psellismo- + (Greek: stammering; faltering in speech).

Word Unit: psepho-, pseph- + (Greek > Latin: pebble/pebbles, stone/stones; election; vote).

Word Unit: pseudo-, pseud- (Greek: false, deception, lying, untrue, counterfeit; used as a prefix).

Word Unit: Pseudoserendipity (coined and presented by Royston M. Roberts, PhD, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin; among many other achievements).

Word Unit: psi + (Greek: the twenty-third letter of the Greek alphabet).

Word Unit: psilo-, psil- + (Greek: bare, making bare, stripping; smooth, plain; mere, merely).

Word Unit: psitta- (Greek [psittakos-] > Latin [psittacinus-]: parrot).

Word Unit: Psoriasis: Getting to know more about it (a disease of the skin in which raised, rough, reddened areas appear, covered with fine silvery scales which cause aggravation).

Word Unit: psoro-, psor- + (Greek: itch, mange).

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


Word Unit: psych-, psycho-, -psyche, -psychic, -psychical, -psychically + (Greek: mind, spirit, consciousness; mental processes; the human soul; breath of life).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "mind, mental" word units: anima-; anxi-; deliri-; hallucina-; menti-; moro-; noo-; nous; phreno-; thymo-2.

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


Word Unit: Psychoneurosis Types (psychoneurotic situations).

Word Unit: psychro-, psychr- + (Greek: cold).

Cross references of word families that are related directly or indirectly to "winter, freezing, frost, and/or cold": algid- (cold, chilly); cheimo-, chimo- (winter, cold); crymo-, krymo- (cold, chill, frost); cryo-, kryo-; (cold, freezing); frigo-, frig- (cold, frost); gel-, gelati- (freeze, frost, congeal); hiber- (winter, wintry); pago- (cold, freezing); rhigo- (cold, frost; shiver).


Word Unit: psylli-, psyll- + (Greek > Latin: flea).

Word Unit: ptarmo-, ptarm- (Greek: sneeze, a sneezing).

Word Unit: pterido-, pterid- (Greek: fern [from pter[on], "feather, wing"]).

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


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