Latin

agō

‘do, act, make’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Latin agō.

124 English words in this record descend from Latin agō, most familiar first.

• act ← acte ← ācta
• action ← accioun ← aucion ← āctiō ← āctum
• active ← actyf ← actif ← āctīvus
• agency ← agentia ← agēns
• activity ← activité ← āctīvitās ← āctīvus
• actual ← actuel ← actuālis ← actus
• agent ← agēns
• reaction ← reaccion ← reāctiō
• actor ← actour ← āctus
• agenda
• examination ← examinacioun ← examinacion ← exāminātiō ← exāminō
• actively ← actyvely ← actyf ← actif ← āctīvus

More words from agō

• transaction
• examine
• activate
• radioactive
• inactive
• ambiguous
• squat
• enact
• agile
• ambiguity
• agility
• assay
• reactionary
• agitation
• retroactive
• unambiguous
• reagent
• hyperactivity
• radium
• actuator
• cogent
• actuation
• ambiguously
• redaction
• inexact
• exigent
• actuate
• redact
• actus
• coagulate
• examen
• actio
• exigency
• exacta
• agito
• bioactivity
• disambiguate
• overactivity
• exaction
• actrice
• inexactitude
• exiguous
• ambigu
• abaction
• abigeat
• abigeus
• actrix
• acturience
• actitation
• actuatable
• actuability
• agendum
• agitatrix
• aginator
• agible
• agitolalia
• agitophasia
• agitographia
• ambages
• ambagious
• ambiguousness
• ambiguate
• ambiguation
• ambage
• ambiguify
• ambiguator
• autoactivity
• bioinactive
• coact
• cogitabund
• coactivity
• coagmentation
• coagment
• cytoactivity
• disambiguity
• exigible
• excogitate
• exagitate
• examinate
• examinator
• fustigate
• hypoactivity
• ichnoactivity
• inactively
• indigitate
• incogitant
• inactiveness
• inambiguous
• microactivity
• multiactivity
• myoactivity
• neuroactivity
• nonambiguous
• nonactivity
• nonambiguity
• objurgation
• objurgate
• objurgatory
• outrecuidance
• outrecuidant
• photoinactive
• photoactivity
• piezoactivity
• prodigate
• preactivity
• reactuate
• seroactivity
• subact
• subactivity
• thermoactivity
• unambiguity
• vasoactivity

Etymograph / Latin agō