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What are some words with the Latin root form?

You're asking for words with the Latin root form, not the form itself. A root is the basic element of a word that gives it its meaning. Here are some examples:

Root | Meaning | English Words

------- | -------- | --------

act | to do | action, activate, enact, react, transact

anim | mind, soul | animal, animation, unanimous, animosity

aqua | water | aquarium, aqueduct, aquatic

aud | to hear | audience, audible, auditory

bene | good, well | benefit, benevolent, benediction

cap | to take, hold | capable, capture, captivate, recapitulate

cred | to believe | credit, credible, incredible, credence

curr | to run | current, concur, curriculum, excursion

dict | to say, speak | dictionary, dictate, contradict, predict

duc | to lead | conduct, deduce, introduce, produce

fac | to make, do | factory, manufacture, facile, affect

fer | to bear, carry | transfer, infer, offer, refer

fin | end | finish, final, infinite, define

form | shape | form, formal, transform, conform

grad | to step, go | graduate, degrade, gradual, retrograde

graph | to write | graph, graphic, autograph, biography

ject | to throw | project, inject, reject, subject

junct | to join | conjunction, adjunct, disjunct, junction

leg | to read | legible, illegible, legend, prologue

liber | free | liberate, liberty, liberal, deliver

luc | light | lucid, illuminate, translucent, elucidate

magn | great | magnify, magnificent, magnitude, magnanimous

man | hand | manual, manipulate, manicure, manufacture

mit | to send | admit, commit, emit, submit

mot | to move | motion, motivate, promote, emotion

nov | new | novel, innovate, renovation, novice

omni | all | omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnivorous

path | feeling, suffering | sympathy, apathy, empathy, pathetic

ped | foot | pedal, pedestrian, biped, impede

port | to carry | import, export, transport, report

scrib | to write | scribe, describe, inscribe, subscribe

spect | to look | inspect, prospect, retrospect, spectacle

tend | to stretch, hold | extend, intend, attend, pretend

tract | to draw, pull | attract, detract, extract, contract

ven | to come | convene, intervene, prevent, advent

vert | to turn | convert, revert, invert, divert

vid | to see | evident, provide, video, vision

This is just a small sampling, and there are many more Latin roots that contribute to the vast English vocabulary. You can find online dictionaries or resources specifically dedicated to Latin roots for a more comprehensive list.

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