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

Word Unit: plano-, plan-, -plany, -plania + (Greek: passively drifting, wandering, or roaming; planet or planets).

Word Unit: planta-, plant- + (Latin: sole of the foot).

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



Word Unit: platy-, plat-, platino-, platt- (Greek: broad, wide; flat, level).

Word Unit: plaud-, plaus-, plod-, plos- + (Latin: to clap, to strike, to beat; to clap the hands in approbation [recognition as good], to approve).

Word Unit: ple-, pleini-, plen-, plet- (Latin: fill, full).

Word Unit: pleb- (Latin: common people, common multitude; as opposed to the patricians [upper-class citizens] of Roman times).

Word Unit: plectr- + (Greek plektron > Latin plectrum: thing to strike with; such as, a pick for a lyre, a zither, a guitar, an autoharp, etc.).

Word Unit: -plegia, -pleg, -plegic, -plegy, plego-, pleg- (Greek: stroke, blow, strike; paralysis).

Word Unit: pleio-, plei-, pleo-, pleon-, plio- + (Greek: more, most; full; excessive; multiple).

Word Unit: pleo-, plos-, ploto-, plot-, pluteus- + (Greek: swim, swimming, swimmer; sail, sailor; float, floating).

Word families with similar applications about: "swim, swimming": nata-; necto-; neusto.

Word Unit: Pleonasms or Tautological Redundancies (avoid redundancies by not using unnecessary repetitions and superfluous words).

Word Unit: plesio-, plesi- (Greek: near; resembling that which is named by the combining root).

Word Unit: plethor-, plethysmo- + (Greek: excess, superabundance, overly full, fullness; increase).

Word Unit: pleuro-, pleur- (Greek: side, rib; a thin membrane with two layers that line the chest cavity).

Word Unit: pleusto-, pleust- (Greek: to sail, to float; flow).

Word Unit: -plex, -plexity, -plexus, -ple, -pli, -plic, -plicat, -plicit, -plicate, -plication, -ply, plici- (Latin: bend, curve, turn, fold, twine, twist, interweave, weave).

Word Unit: -plexia, -plexias, -plexies, -plexy, -plectic, -plexic + (Greek: stroke, wound; used in medicine to denote "a condition resulting from a stroke").

Word Unit: -ploid-, -ploidy-, -plo- (Greek: a fold; folded).

Word Unit: plor- + (Latin: to weep, to cry out, to bewail, to lament, ).

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