Word part · Greek combining form
The Greek combining form auto
Means: self.
At a glance
- Part
- auto
- Meaning
- self
- Layer
- Greek: Combining forms behind science words, with spellings like ph and ch.
An autograph is your own name written by yourself; an automobile moves by itself.
Example words
Read each word, then its sum: the parts that build it, and what they mean together.
Colors:prefixroot or basesuffix
- auto (root or base)+graph (root or base)→autograph
a person's name written by that person
- auto (root or base)+graph (root or base)+s (suffix)→autographs
more than one autograph
- auto (root or base)+mobile (root or base)→automobile
a car; a machine that moves by itself
- auto (root or base)+pilot (root or base)→autopilot
a system that flies a plane by itself
- auto (root or base)+bio (root or base)+graphy (root or base)→autobiography
the story of a life, written by the person who lived it
- auto (root or base)+mobile (root or base)+s (suffix)→automobiles
more than one automobile
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