7th Grade EL Root Words

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• to test

• arbor,  

  arboris

• water

• aud

• to hear

• amo,  

  amatum

• tree

• assess

• love

• aqua

Match the following root word with its meaning

• time

• bonus

• adhering to the  

  same principles

• cred

• good

• chronos  

  (chron)

• good, well

• consist

• believe

• bene,  

  boun, bon

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• practical

• facio,  

  factum,  

  fy, fier

• make, do

• familiaris

• tree

• dem(os)

• people

• dendron

• of a household

• effectivus

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• create

• habitare

• attach

• gen

• water

• hydros  

  (hydr)

• same

• identitas

• dwell, live

• figo, fixum

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• join

• luna

• fire

• logos

• moon

• jungo,  

  junctum

• movement

• ignis

• word, speech

• kinesis,  

  cinema

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• fear

• philia,  

  phile

• to seize, take hold  of, make one’s  

  own

• magnus

• love

• narr

• large, big

• phobos

• to say, to tell

• occupare

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• place, street,  

  area

• pono,  

  postum  

  (pos,  

  post)

• to carry

• platea

• put, place

• scio,  

  scitum  

  (sci)

• know

• port

• to write

• scribe  

  (scrib),  

  scriptum  

  (script)

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• to see, watch,  

  observe

• tech

• sound

• sonus

• art and craft

• spectro,  

  spect,  

  spec

• time

• testis,  

  testari,  

  testor

• assert

• tempus,  

  temporis

Match the following root word with its meaning.

• heat

• vac

• to call or summon

• vocare  

  (voc, vok)

• empty

• thermos  

  (therm)

• word

• verbum