Control

Morpheme

Control

Type

free base

Denotation

check, verify, regulate, exert authority

Etymology

Early Modern English countrollen; Anglo-Norman contreroller; Old French contrerole; Medieval Latin contrārotulus; Latin contrā + rotulus, from rotula, from rota

Evidence

anticontrol, autocontrolled, biocontrolling, control, controlee, controllability, controllable, controllableness, controlled, controlledly, controlledness, controllee, controller, controlling, controllingly, controllingness, controlment, controls, decontrol, enantiocontrol, hypercontrolled, hypercontrolling, incontrollable, incontrollably, microcontrolled, miscontrol, myocontrolled, neurocontrolled, noncontrollable, noncontrolled, noncontrolling, overcontrol, paracontrolled, photocontrol, photocontrollability, photocontrollable, recontrol, regiocontrolled, regiocontrolling, semicontrolled, servocontrolled, stereocontrolling, supercontrolled, telecontrol, thermocontrolled, thermocontroller, uncontrollability, uncontrollable, uncontrollableness, uncontrollably, uncontrolled, uncontrolledly, uncontrolledness, uncontrolling, uncontrollingly, undercontrolled, undercontroller

Notes

<l> need not double (but can), especially with inflectional suffixes

See Also

Rote