very, tiny...{micro-organism(meaning small organism), microwave(means pretty much a small oven), microscope(kind of like a small telescope, and made to view small things), etc}
Smallest has a suffix and a root word / base word but no prefix. Root Word / Base Word: small. Suffix: est. Prefix: None.
Astronomy and astronaut have the root 'Astros' which means star.
micro means small
Micro- is prefix, Organism is the root word and this word has no suffix.
micro, i.e. micro-scopic, micro-organism, micro-dot, etc.
macro is a root for large, while micro is, of course, small
The root word in "microwave" is "micro," which means small or tiny.
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Pathogen. microbe, virus, bug, bacterium, bacillus, micro-organism Another meaning: beginning, root, seed, origin, spark, embryo, rudiment
It means small or little. actually it is not originally greek, it was latin.
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Microscope and micro-organism are two examples.