Dedication: 3/15/05

acinus: cluster

aciniform

-acius: tending to

perspicacious etc. (= Eng. -acious)
-acitas: quality of being inclined to

prespicacity etc. (= Eng. -acity)
-acia: quality of having

obstinacy etc. (= Eng. -acy)

ad: to

ad-, adapt, accept, addition, adept, affect, aggressive, adhere, adit, adjacent, allege, admit, ammunition, announce, adopt, apply, acquire, arrive, assume, attend, adumbrate, advent etc.

Note assimilation: ad + munio becomes ammuntion.

Despite their appearance advance and advantage are not compounds of ad, but rather are a combination of ab and ante (q.v.).

N.B. This prefix is NOT listed separately in the Reverse Index.

N.B. dos-a-dos from French.
adeps: fat

adipose, adiposity

adulescens (youth): see alo
adulor (1): fawn upon

adulate, adulation, adulatory

aedes (aedis): temple, building; aedificium: building

aedile, aedileship, edification, edificatory, edifice, edify, edifying, edifyingly, unedifying

aeger: sick

aeger, aegrotat

Aegyptus: Egypt: see AiguptoV
Aemilia: Aemilia

Emil, Emily

aemulus: rival

emulate, emulation, emulative, emulator, emulous, emulously

See also imitor, which may be related.
aequus: level, fair, just; aequo: equal; aequor: sea; iniquus: unjust

adequacy, adequate, adequately, adequation, autumnal equinox, coequal, coequality, coequally, disequilibrium, Ecuador, Equadorian, egalitarian, egalitarianism, egality, equability, equable, equably, equal, equalitarian, equality, equalization, equalize, equalizer, equally, equanimity, equanimous, equant, equatable, equate, equation, equational, equator, equatorial, equiangular, equidistant, equifinal, equilateral, equilibrated, equilibrator, equilibrist, equilibrium, equilize, equinoctial, equinomial, equinominal, equinox, equinumerous, equipartition, equipedal, equipede, equipluve, equipoise, equiponderate, equipotent, equipotential, equiprobable, equirotal, equisonant, equitable, equitably, equity, equivalence, equivalency, equivalent, equivalently, equivalve, equivocal, equivocally, equivocate, equivocation, equivocator, equivacatory, equivoluminal, inadequacy, inadequate, inadequately, inequality, inequitable, inequitably, inequity, iniquitous, iniquitously, iniquity, nanoequivalent, triequal, unequal, unequaled, unequally, unequivocal, unequivocally, vernal equinox