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Word Unit: sapro-, sapr-, sap- + (Greek: rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay; poisoning from bacterial action ).

Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: phthisio- (decay, waste away); puro- (pus); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); pustu- (blister, pimple); putre- (rotten, decayed); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay) sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).

Word Unit: sarco-, sarc-, -sarcous, -sarc, -sarcoma, -sarcomatous, -sarcomatoid (Greek: flesh, meat).

Related "meat, flesh" word units: carno-; creo-, kreo-.

Word Unit: sarmasso-, sarmass- + (Greek: love play, sexual foreplay with a woman; necking from sarx, flesh plus massein, to knead, to massage; methodical pressure).

Word Unit: satan (Hebrew and Greek: the devil, the adversary).

Word Unit: sathro-, sathr- (Greek: decayed, rotten; unsound, weak; humus).

Word Unit: satir- + (Latin: poetic medley, satire: the use of irony, sarcasm, or ridicule in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. ).

Related "jest; joke; wit; humor; funny" word units: faceti-; farc-; humor-; jocu-; lud-.

Word Unit: satis-, sati-, sat- (Latin: enough).

Word Unit: Saturn, words from myths (Saturn, Roman god of the harvest and a planet; sixth planet from the sun).

Word Unit: satyr- + (Greek > Latin: a woodland deity, part man and part goat; riotous merriment and lechery).

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

Word Unit: sauro-, saur-, -saurus, -saurid, -saur, -sauria, -saurian (Greek: lizard, reptile, serpent; used especially with reference to “dinosaurs”).

Word Unit: saxi-, sax- (Latin: rock, rocky, stone, broken rock, rough stone).

Related "stone, rock" word families: lapid-; litho-; petro-; stele-.

Word Unit: scabio-, scabi-, scab- (Latin: rough, scurfy, scabby, mangy, itchy).

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

Word Unit: scaffold (Greek > Latin > French: beside, alongside).

Word Unit: scapho-, scaph- (Greek: boat-shaped [often refers to bones]; shaped like the hull of a boat; dug out like a boat; trench; deep vessel).

Word Unit: scapulo-, scapul-, -scapula, -scapular (Latin: the flat, triangular bone in the back of the shoulder; the shoulder blade).

Word Unit: scarab (Greek: karabos, "crab, beetle"; Latin: scarabaeus, "beetle").

Word Unit: scato-, scat-, skato-, skat- (Greek: dung, feces, excrement).

Word Unit: sceler-, scelero- (Latin: wickedness, evil deed, crime).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "bad, wrong": caco-, kako-; dys-; mal-; mis-; pessim-.

Word Unit: scend-, scen-, scand-, scan-, scans- (Latin: to climb; to mount; by extension, ladder).

Word Unit: schisto-, schist-, schis-, -schisia, -scisis (Greek: split, cleft).

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