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词根词缀:ambros-, ambro-, ambrot-

【来源及含义】Greek: food of the gods that gave immortality; immortal, divine, excellent

【同源单词】ambrosia, ambrosiac, ambrosial, ambrosially, ambrosin, ambrotype

词根词缀:demono-, demon-, -demonic, -demon, -demonical, -demoniac, daemono-, -daemonic, -daemonical, -daemon, -daemoniac, -daemonia, -daemoniacally, -daimon, -daimonic

【来源及含义】Greek: devil, demon [evil spirit]; an intermediary spirit between gods and men which could be good or evil

【同源单词】ademonist, agathodemon, agathodemonic, antidemoniac, cacodaemonomania, cacodemon

词根词缀:herm-, herme-

【来源及含义】Greek: Hermes, the son of Zeus and Maia, the god of commerce and messenger of the gods in Greek mythology; identified by the Romans as Mercury; however, some of the words in this unit come from Hermes tris megistos, Hermes Trismegistus, literally, "Hermes, Thrice the Greatest" referring to the Egyptian god Thoth, who was identified with the Greek god Hermes, of science and arts

【同源单词】herm, Hermanubis, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, hermeneutic, hermeneutical

词根词缀:ichor-

【来源及含义】Greek: fluid [distinct from blood] that flows through the veins of the gods; by extension, "watery part of blood or milk," used in the sense of "thin, serous or sanious fluid, especially from a wound or sore"

【相关词根词缀】Cross references of word groups that are related, partially or extensively, to: "blister, bump, swelling": bull-; papulo-; pemphig-; puro-; pus-; pustu-; pyo-; suppurant-; tum-; vesico-; vesiculo-.

【同源单词】ichor, ichorhemia, ichoroid, ichorous, ichorous pus, ichorrhemia

词根词缀:luna, luni-, lun-, lunu-

【来源及含义】Latin: moon, light, shine

【相关词根词缀】 Etymologically related "light, shine, glow" word families: ethero-; fulg-; luco-; lumen-, lum-; lustr-; phengo-; pheno-; phospho-; photo-; scinti-, scintill-; splendo-. A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to the: "moon": Calendar, Moon Facts; Chemical Element: selenium; Gods and Goddesses; Luna, the earth moon; menisc-; meno-; Planets in Motion; plano- seleno-.

【同源单词】apolune, circumlunar, cislunar, demilune, ex luna scientia, illunis

词根词缀:menisc-, menisco-

【来源及含义】Greek meniskos > Latin meniscus: a crescent-shaped body, a curved structure, lunar crescent form, semilunar cartilage; diminutive of mene, "moon"

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to the: "moon": Calendar, Moon Facts; Chemical Element: selenium; Gods and Goddesses; luna, luni-; Luna, the earth moon; meno-; Planets in Motion; plano-; seleno-.

【同源单词】knee joint, lateral meniscus of the knee, medial meniscus of the knee, meniscal, meniscectomy, meniscitis

词根词缀:meno-, men-, meni-, -mena

【来源及含义】Greek: month; moon; menses (plural), mensis (singular), "month"

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to the: "moon": Calendar, Moon Facts; Chemical Element: selenium; Gods and Goddesses; luna, luni-; Luna, the earth moon; menisc-; Planets in Motion; plano-; seleno-.

【同源单词】amenia, catamenia, dysmenorrhea, menagogue, menhidrosis, menolipsis

词根词缀:nectar-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: drink of the gods; from Greek mythology

【相关词根词缀】 Related "drink" units: bib-; dipso-; haust-; poto-.

【同源单词】nectar, nectareal, nectarean, nectared, nectareous, nectarial

词根词缀:-olatry, -latry, -olater-, -later, -olatress, -latress, -olatria, -olatrous, -latrous

【来源及含义】Greek: worship; excessively, fanatically devoted to someone or something; “service paid to the gods”

【相关词根词缀】Related religious-word units: church; dei-, div-; ecclesi-; fanati-; hiero-; idol-; theo-; zelo-.

【同源单词】angelolatry, anthropolatry, arborolatry, archaeolater, archaeolatrous, archaeolatry

词根词缀:plano-, plan-, -plany, -plania

【来源及含义】Greek: passively drifting, wandering, or roaming; planet or planets

【相关描述】The planets are shown in this unit with images and links for details about each planet.

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of word units that are related, directly or indirectly, to the: "moon": Calendar, Moon Facts; Chemical Element: selenium; Gods and Goddesses; luna, luni-; Luna, the earth moon; menisc-; meno-; Planets in Motion; seleno-.

【同源单词】angioplany, aplanogamete, diplanetism, exoplanet, extrasolar planet, interplanetary