| A | B |
| bio (biology; biography; symbiotic) | life |
| vita (vitamin; vital; vitality) | life |
| viv (vivacious; vivisection; revive; viva) | life |
| luc (lucent; lucid; translucent; Lucifer) | light |
| photo (photograph; photosynthesis; photon) | light |
| simil, simul (similar, assimilate, simulate, simulacrum, simultaneous) | like or resembling |
| lin (delineate; linear; lineage) | line |
| scope (microscope; telescope; colonoscopy) | look/see |
| spec (spectacle; speculate; retrospect; prospective; inspect) | look/see |
| vid (video; evidence; invidious; videlicet) | look/see |
| solv (solvent; insolvent; dissolve; resolve) | loosen |
| phile (philosophy; bibliophile; audiophile) | love |
| bas (base; bass; basal; debase; basic) | low |
| mania (monomania; egomania; pyromania) | madness |
| fy (fortify; rectify; deify; solidify) | make |
| multi (multilinguistic; multifarious; multilaterial; multiped) | many |
| poly (polygamy; polytheist; polygon) | many |
| mens (immense; mensurable; immensurable; commensurate) | measure |
| meter (perimeter; odometer; hydrometer) | measure |
| medi (medium; mediate) | middle |
| anim (animate; animal; animadversion) | mind |
| luna (lunatic; lunar; sublunar) | moon |
| plu (plural; plurality; plutocracy; surplus; plus) | more |
| matri (matrimony; matricide; maternal) | mother |
| mont (dismount; surmount; Montana; piedmont) | mountain |