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RootLatin
vit/viv
life, alive
Latin vivere, to live: vital things sustain life, revive brings life again, and survive means living beyond danger.
Words built from it
- vital — necessary for life, absolutely essential
vit (life) + -al - survive — to stay alive through something
sur- (beyond) + viv (live) - revive — to bring back to life or activity
re- (again) + viv (live) - vivid — strikingly bright or lifelike
viv (life) + -id - vivacious — lively and full of energy
viv (life) + -acious (full of) - convivial — friendly and cheerful in company
con- (together) + viv (live)
Looks like it, but is not
- inevitable — It comes from Latin evitare meaning to avoid, so the sense is 'cannot be avoided', not anything to do with life.
- brevity — It comes from Latin brevis meaning short; the 'vit' letters here are only a coincidence of spelling.
- invite — from Latin invitare 'to invite,' not vivere 'to live'
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Related word parts
- super/sur — over, beyond