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

Word Unit: Story Translation: The Lupus and the Tragas (a story told with an emphasis on Latin and Greek roots and affixes).

Word Unit: Story Translations Listed (varieties of mostly Latin-Greek based story translations).

Word Unit: Story: The Emperor and his New Clothes (a fable about the pitfalls of political self-aggrandizement and the fear of people to face reality even when they know that the reality of the situation is untrue).

Word Unit: stratio-, strati-, strato-, strat- stratus (Latin: horizontal layer; "stretched, spread out"; layer, cloud layer; to strew).

Word Unit: strato- (Greek: army).

Word Unit: streph-, strepho-, strep- + (Greek: to twist, to turn).

Word Unit: strepi-, strep- (Latin: noise, to make noise; to rattle, to roar).

Word Unit: strepto-, strepsi- (Greek: a twisting, to twist; easily bent or twisted, like a chain).

Word Unit: stri-, strio- + (Latin: furrow, furrowed; groove, grooved).

Word Unit: stridu-, strid- + (Latin: creaking, making a creaking sound; a shrill sound; a harsh sound).

Word Unit: string-, strict-, strain-, -stringence, -stringency, -stringe, -stringent (Latin: draw tight, to bind, to compress).


Word Unit: stru-, struct-, -structure, -struction, -structive (Latin: to build, to build up; to pile; to construct, to place together, to arrange).

Related "together" units: com-; greg-; inter-.


Word Unit: strum-, strumo-, strumi- + (Latin: tumor, swollen gland, goiter).

Word Unit: stud-, studi- (Latin: eagerness, to be eager; to be diligent; to be pressing forward).

Word Unit: stulti-, stult- (Latin: foolish, foolishness, folly, silliness).

Word Unit: stup-, stupe- + (Latin: amazing, dull, dullness, numbed, numbness, stunned, stupefied).

Word Unit: stygio, stygi-, styx- + (Greek > Latin: hate, hating, hated, hateful; abhor, abhorrence; loathsome, loathing).

Related "hate, hatred" word sources: miso-; odi-.


Word Unit: styl-, stylo-, styli- + (Greek: column; pillar; pillarlike implement or structure, especially the styloid process of the temporal bone).

Word Unit: stypt- + (Greek: astringent [from the verb styphein, "to contract, to be astringent").

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