You may also find it useful to be mindful of the many Latin derivatives in the English language. Sometimes a familiar English word can be your key to learning a Latin root. Vice versa, Latin roots can help greatly improve your English vocabulary. ab (a) + abl. - away from, from; by...
word-forming element expressing direction toward or in addition to, from Latinad"to, toward" in space or time; "with regard to, in relation to," as a prefix, sometimes merely emphatic, from PIE root*ad-"to, near, at." Simplified toa-beforesc-,sp-andst-; modified toac-before many ...
Hi Trevor, I might disagree a little bit with telling Madi that. It gives the inference that people sometime in the past might have been pointing at things and making the sound "oook, oook" to communicate with each other. I can see this thread getting relegated to the opinions page rea...
with; contemplate &c (think of) 451; look at, look to, look after, look into, look over; see to; turn the mind to, bend the mind to, apply the mind to, direct the mind to, give the mind to, turn the eye to, bend the eye to, apply the eye to, direct the eye to, give...
brevis- (L) short (caput breve, breviflex, breviradiate) brizo- to nod bromo- oats, broom, shadow bronch(us)- (G) windpipe, air tubes (bronchial, bronchoscope) bryo- (G) moss (bryology, Bryophyta, Bryozoa) bucca(i,o?)- (L) cheek or mouth cavity (buccal) bulbos- bulbous bulla...
"make shorter, shorten, condense," from Old Frenchabregier,abrigier"abridge, diminish, shorten" (12c., Modern Frenchabréger), from Late Latinabbreviare"make short," from Latinad"to" (seead-) +breviare"shorten," frombrevis"short, low, little, shallow" (from PIE root*mregh-u-"short...