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

Word Unit: -trum (Latin: a suffix; result of, the act of, means of).

Word Unit: trunc-, truncat- (Latin: to maim, to cut off; mutilated, cut off).

Related cutting-word units: castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; -tomy.


Word Unit: trypan-, trypano- + (Greek: auger, borer; parasitic protozoa).

Word Unit: tub- (Latin: pipe).

Word Unit: tuber-, tuberi- (Latin: swelling, node).

Word Unit: -tude (Latin: a suffix; state, quality, condition of).

Word Unit: tuit-, tut- (Latin: to look after, watch over; watcher, guardian).

Word Unit: tum-, tume- (Latin: swelling, to swell).

Word Unit: turb-, turbin-, turbo-, turbu- + (Latin: uproar, commotion, disorderly, agitated, confusion; whirl, whirlwind).

Word Unit: turpit- + (Latin: disgraceful, depravity, infamy; from turpis, ugly, unsightly, unseemly; disgraceful, shameful, infamous, foul).

Word Unit: tuss- + (Latin: cough).

Word Unit: tycho-, tych- + (Greek: accident, chance, fortune, fate, providence).

Word Unit: tyl-, tylo- (Greek: a knob; callus, callous, callosity).

Word Unit: tympan-, tympano-, tympani- + (Greek > Latin: drum, kettledrum; stretched membrane; from "blow, impression, to beat"; a part of the ear).

Related "ear" word families: auri-; myring-; oto-.


Word Unit: typhl-, typhlo- (Greek: blind, blindness [typhlos, blind]; denotes relationship to the cecum or the first part of the large intestine, forming a dilated pouch; also called the "blindgut" or "blind intestine" [caecum, "blind, blind gut", typhlon, cecum]).

Word Unit: typho-, typh-, -typhoidal, -typhus + (Greek: to smoke; smoke, mist, vapor, cloud, fog; used exclusively in medicine as a reference to fever accompanied by stupor or a clouding of the mind resulting from the fever caused by a severe-infectious disease).

Word Unit: Typhoid Mary (unaware that she was a carrier of a deadly disease).

Word Unit: typhon-, typhoni- + (Greek > Latin: whirlwind, tempest).

Word Unit: typo-, typ-, -type (Greek: a blow; impression; a mold).

Word Unit: tyrann-, tyranni-, tyran- (Greek > Latin: an absolute ruler; an oppressor, a dictator).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "master, lead, leading, ruler, ruling, govern": -agogic; agon-; arch-; -crat; dom-; gov-; magist-; poten-; regi-.


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