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Word Unit: a-, an- (Greek: prefix; no, absence of, without, lack of; not) Word Unit: ab- a (Latin: prefix; indicating electromagnetic units of the centimeter-gram-second system) Word Unit: abacus (Hebrew > Greek > Latin > Middle English: dust) Word Unit: abdomin-, abdomino-, abdomen- (Latin: belly, venter [the use of "stomach" is considered incorrect for this root word]; from Latin abdo-, to put away) Word Unit: -ability (Latin: suffix; expressing ability, capacity, fitness, or "that which may be easily handled or managed") Word Unit: -able (Latin: a suffix; expressing capacity, fitness to do that which can be handled or managed, suitable skills to accomplish something; capable of being done, something which can be finished, etc.) Word Unit: -ably (Latin: suffix; able manner, capably) Word Unit: abort-, aborti- (Latin: miscarry, pass away, perish by an untimely birth) Word Unit: About English Words (history of how, when, and why hundreds of words have entered the English language) Word Unit: abysso-, abyss-, abys- (Greek > Latin: Greek [abussoz], a-, "no" plus bussos, "bottom" through Latin [abyssus], "no bottom, bottomless") Word Unit: -ac (Greek > Latin: suffix; from French -aque, or directly from Latin -acus, from Greek -akos forming adjectives. This suffix was used to form names of arts and sciences in Greek and it is now generally used to form new names of sciences in English; meanings, "related to, of the nature of, pertaining to, referring to") Word Unit: academ- (Greek > Latin: [originally, Academus/Akademus, a name of a hero in Greek mythology; then it became a gymnasium near Athens where Plato taught]) Word Unit: accipit- (Latin: bird of prey, a hawk; hawk-like)

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