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  2. List of Greek and Latin roots in English - Wikipedia

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    The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes. These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O; Greek and Latin roots from P to Z. Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are listed in the List of medical roots, suffixes and ...

  3. List of Greek and Latin roots in English/A–G - Wikipedia

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    The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from A to G. See also the lists from H to O and from P to Z . Some of those used in medicine and medical technology are not listed here but instead in the entry for List of medical roots, suffixes and prefixes .

  4. Stemming - Wikipedia

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    A stemmer for English operating on the stem cat should identify such strings as cats, catlike, and catty. A stemming algorithm might also reduce the words fishing, fished, and fisher to the stem fish. The stem need not be a word, for example the Porter algorithm reduces argue, argued, argues, arguing, and argus to the stem argu.

  5. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic ...

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    stem, stalk: stemless gentian, Gentiana acaulis: acaulis – acaule: cephalo-G κεφαλή (kephalḗ) head: Mediterranean gull, Larus melanocephalus; blue-spotted grouper, Cephalopholis argus: All pages with titles beginning with Cephal-ceps: L caput: head: pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps; biceps (two-headed muscle) ceros: L cornū G ...

  6. Word stem - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a word stem is a part of a word responsible for its lexical meaning. Typically, a stem remains unmodified during inflection with few exceptions due to apophony (for example in Polish, miast-o ("city") and w mieść-e ("in the city"); in English, sing, sang, and sung, where it can be modified according to morphological rules or peculiarities, such as sandhi).

  7. -onym - Wikipedia

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    isonym: 1: a word having the same root or stem as another — also known as paronym. Compare exonym, heteronym, paronym, and synonym. 2: one person's surname that is the same as another person's surname.

  8. List of continent name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The weakness of an etymology with εὐρύς (eurus), is 1. that the -u stem of εὐρύς disappears in Εὐρώπη Europa and 2. the expected form εὐρυώπη euryopa that retains the -u stem in fact exists.

  9. List of names for cannabis - Wikipedia

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    Stem English. Part of a cannabis plant. [21] Strawberry Cough Industry trade name for cannabis strain. [63] Super Lemon Haze: Industry trade name for cannabis sativa strain. [87] Tangerine Dream Industry trade name for cannabis strain. A hybridization of G13, Afghani, and Neville's A5 Haze. [88] Terpene: English. Part of a cannabis flower. [76 ...