ROOTWORD

root word

Noun

  1. A prefix in an English word derived from Greek or Latin.
  2. It is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. Inflectional stems often derive from roots.


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