Word Structure

WordHub has a local lexical record for “Rodentia” with pronunciation and root analysis.

• rod

  to eat, gnaw rostr: beak

  Forms: rod, ros, rostr

• -ent

  an adjective suffix signifying action or being, or a noun suffix referring to people or things performing a specific action -olent, -ulent: full of, disposed to

  Forms: ent

• -ia

  a suffix that forms nouns; state of, condition of, quality of; act of - names of diseases - names of countries - names of chemical alkaloids - names of flowers, from names of the discoverer or the person who introduced the flower - names of classes and orders in botany and zoology - names of collective nouns - names of things relating to something - plurals of Latin and Greek nouns that end with -ion, -ium, -um

  Forms: ia