Prefixes Expressing Relationships
Some prefixes express a relationship when attached to a root word.
Read the following excerpt and circle the words that you think have a prefix that means "with" or "together."
In order to complete the committee's report on the equipment problems, the members will need to collaborate. Max is corresponding with the manufacturer, but the manufacturer is not being very cooperative. While the company is sympathetic, it refuses to replace the machines. The committee might conclude that it should replace the machinery with new equipment from another source. We are confident that, whatever the outcome, the equipment will be ready to make the new synthetic fabrics next month.
Did you circle committee, collaborate, corresponding, cooperative, sympathetic, conclude, and synthetic? All of these words begin with a prefix that means "with" or "together."
com-
Com- and its various spellings (co-, cor-, col-, and con-) means "together" or "with." Committee combines com- with a root we have seen before, -mit-, meaning "to send." A committee is, therefore, a group of people sent together to report or act on a matter.
Before l, the prefix becomes col-, as in collaborate, which combines the prefix with a root meaning of labor or work, giving us "work together."
Before r, the prefix becomes cor-, as in correspond, or "responding to one another."
Con- is a spelling of this prefix that is used before many consonants (c, d, f, g, j, n, q, s, t, v), as in conclude, or "end together" or "bring together in the end."
Cooperate uses the co- spelling of the prefix to give us "operate together." We see this spelling before vowels. Based on this information, how would you define coordinate? (The root is from the Latin word ordinare, meaning "to put in order.")
syn-
The prefix syn-, also spelled sym- and syl-, means "together." Synthetic combines the prefix with a root that means "to place or put"; something that is synthetic has been made by putting things together. To synchronize, which combines the root -chron-, meaning "time," means to "occur at the same time" or to "operate in unison."
Sympathy combines the sym- form of the prefix with a root that means "feeling," giving us "feeling together" or "sharing feelings."
A word that uses syl- is syllable, a set of letters (or "labels") taken together and voiced in a single impulse or spurt.
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