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

Word Unit: Tribology (a greaseless way to lubricate).

Word Unit: Tribology and Nanotribology (a sub-field of tribology involving contact geometries).

Word Unit: tribu-, trib- (Latin: to assign, to allot, to bestow, to give, to grant; tribe).

Word Unit: Trichinosis (also known as trichinellosis, it is caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game products ).


Word Unit: trigono-, trigon- + (Greek: triangular; three angles).

Word Unit: -tripsy, -tripsis, -tripic + (Greek: to crush; to massage, to rub, rubbing, friction, to grind).

Related "rub, rubbing; wear away; wipe" word families: frica-, frict-; terg-; tribo-; trit-.


Word Unit: trismo-, trism- + (Greek: a gnashing, grating, grinding; lockjaw).

Word Unit: triste-, tristi- (Latin: sad, gloomy, melancholia).

Word Unit: trit- + (Latin: to rub; to thresh, to grind; to wear away; from tritus, past participle of terere, "to rub" ).

Related "rub, rubbing; wear away; wipe" word families: frica-, frict-; terg-; tribo-; -tripsy.


Word Unit: trito-, trit- + (Greek: third; a number used as a prefix).

Word Unit: triumph- (Latin: achievement, a success, procession for a victorious general or admiral).

Word Unit: -trix (Latin: a suffix; woman).

Word Unit: troch-, trocho- + (Greek: that which is round[ed]; a wheel, a disk).

Word Unit: troglo-, trogl- + (Greek > Latin: cave; thriving in caves; cave dweller).

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


Word Unit: Troglobites, cave creatures which live buried alive (cave-dwelling creatures).

Word Unit: -tron, -tronic (Greek: a suffix; device, tool, instrument; more generally, used in the names of any kind of chamber or apparatus used in experiments).

Word Unit: tropho-, troph-, -trophy, -trophs, -trophically, -trophic, -trophous (Greek: food, nutrition, nourishment; development).

Don't confuse this tropho-, -trophy element with tropo-, meaning "turn, turning," etc.


Word Unit: tropo-, trop-, -tropal, -trope(s), -tropic, -tropism, -tropia, -tropous, -tropy, trep- (Greek: bend, curve, turn, a turning; response to stimulus).

Don't confuse this tropo-, -tropy element with tropho-, meaning "food, nourishment, nutrition".


Word Unit: trud-, -trude, trus-, -trusion + (Latin: thrust, push, shove).

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