National Classical Etymology Exam (NCEE) Official Study Guide Greek

aeido (ἀειδω) - to sing: comedy, melody, ode, parody, prosody, psalmody, rhapsody, tragedy ago (ἀγω) - to lead, bring: demagogue, pedagogue, pendant, pedantic, stratagem, strategic, synagogue agon (ἀγων) - contest, struggle: agony, antagonist, antagonize algos (ἀλγος) - pain: analgesic, neuralgia, nostalgia allos (ἀλλος) - another: allegory, parallel, parallelogram angelos (ἀνγελος) - messenger: angel, evangelist, evangelical anthropos (ἀνθρωπος) - man: anthropoid, anthropologist, anthropology, misanthropy, philanthropist archo (ἀρχω) - to lead, rule, be the first one, begin: anarchy, archaeology, archaic, archangel, archbishop, archipelago, architecture, architrave, archive, archon, hierarchy, monarch, oligarch, patriarch aster (ἀστηρ) - star: asteroid, asterisk, astrolabe, astrology, astronomy, diaster autos (αὐτος) - self: authentic, auto, autobiography, autocracy, autograph, automatic, automobile, autonomy baino (βαινω) - to walk, step: acrobat, basal, base, baseboard, basement, baseball, diabetes ballo (βαλλω) - to throw: devil, diabolic, emblem, hyperbole, metabolism, parable, parabola, parlance, parley, parliament, parlor, parole, problem, symbol biblios (βιβλιος) - book: Bible, bibliography, bibliophile, bibliophobe bios (βιος) - life: amphibian, autobiography, biography, biology, biomass, microbe gamos (γαμος) - wedding, marriage: polygamy, bigamy, monogamous genos (γενος) - race, offspring, kind: cosmogony, cyanogen, genealogy, genesis, genetic, heterogeneous, homogeneous, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen