Root words #4

Pater/Patr

• Family

• Child

• Father

• Home

Answer explanation

Examples:

Paternity: fatherhood, responsibility

Patron: A wealthy person that supports another, as a father would.

Path/Pathy

• feeling, suffering

• foot

• food

• place, put

Answer explanation

Example:

Apathy: without feeling

Empathy: the ability to share another's emotions, thoughts, and feelings.

Ped/Pod

• light

• love

• foot

• freedom

Answer explanation

Examples:

Pedal: leaver for a foot

Pedestrian: foot traveler

Pedo

• happy

• family

• more

• child

Answer explanation

Example:

Pedagogue: child leader, teacher

Pel/puls

• plump

• stop, slow

• drive, urge

• hairy

Answer explanation

Examples:

Compel

Dispel

Expel

Pend/Pens/Pond

• City

• lever

• love

• hang, weigh

Answer explanation

Examples:

Pendant

Pensive: weighing thought

Phil

• love

• teach

• wisdom

• place, put

Answer explanation

Example:

Philosophy: love of wisdom

Phobia

• fear

• happiness

• fun

• death

Answer explanation

Example:

Claustrophobia: fear of closed spaces

Phon

• sound

• father

• child

• light

Answer explanation

Example:

Phonetic: pertaining sound

Photo

• light

• happiness

• put, place

• sound

Answer explanation

Example:

Photograph: light writing

Photogenic