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


Word Unit: somni-, somno-, somn-, -somnia, -somniac + (Latin: sleep; dream).

Related "sleep" units: dorm-; hypno-; letho-; narco-; oneiro- (dream); sopor-.


Word Unit: sono-, son-, sona-, -sonous, -sonic, -sonically (Latin: sound, that which is heard; noise).


Word Unit: sopor-, sop- + (Latin: sleep, deep sleep).

Related "sleep" units: dorm-; hypno-; letho-; narco-; oneiro- (dream); somni-.


Word Unit: sorb-, sorpt- (Latin: to suck in).

Word Unit: sorc-, sors-, sort- + (Latin: lot, fortune, fate).

Related "divination, sorcery, fortune telling, omens" word units: auspic-; fa-, fate; Fates in action; futur-; -mancy; omen.


Word Unit: sord- + (Latin: sordidus, dirty, foul, filthy, squalid; dirt, filth; related to sordes, "dirt").

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; lut-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; terr-.


Word Unit: sori-; shrew + (Latin: shrew, shrews).
Other related "shrew" units:

Shrews: A Variety of Shrew Species.

Knowledge: Animals, Elephant Shrews.


Word Unit: soror-, sorori-, soro- (Latin: sister [family member]).

Word Unit: spac-, spat- (Latin: room, area, distance, stretch of time; space).

Word Unit: spano-, span- (Greek: scarce, scarcity; rare, uncommon).

Word Unit: spasmo-, spasm-, spas- + (Greek > Latin: draw, tear, rend, pull; tension, convulsion; sudden, involuntary contractions).

Word Unit: spec-, spic-, spect-, spectat-, spectro- -spectr, -spectful, -spection, -spective (Latin: see, look; sight, appear; behold, examine).

Etymologically related "look, see, view, visible, vision" word families: blep-; -orama; pheno-; scopo-; vid-, visuo-.


Word Unit: Special Content of Interest (units that should be seen because of their important content, illustrations, quizzes, and links to any additional related information).

Word Unit: Speech: Lincoln (Delivered by Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863).

Word Unit: Speech: Mark Antony (as seen in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, 1599, we have this famous speech).

Word Unit: speleo-, spele-, spelaeo-, spelae-, spel-, -spelean, -spelaean (Greek > Latin: cave, cavern).

Related "cave, cavern" word sources: cav-, cavern; spelunc-, spelunk-; stalac-, stalag-; troglo--.


Word Unit: spelunc-, spelunk- (Greek > Latin: a cave, a cavern, a grotto).

Related "cave, cavern" word sources: cav-, cavern; speleo-; stalac-, stalag-; troglo--.


Word Unit: sper- + (Latin: hope).

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