词根词缀：coris-

【来源及含义】Greek: korizesthai, "to caress"; via Late Latin: corisma

【同源单词】hypocorism, hypocorisma, hypocorisms, hypocoristic, hypocoristic, hypocoristically

词根词缀：drama-

【来源及含义】Greek > Late Latin: to do, to accomplish

【同源单词】docudrama, drama, dramatic, dramatis personae, dramatist, dramatization

词根词缀：-ess

【来源及含义】Greek -issa > Late Latin -issa > Old French -esse > Middle English -esse: a suffix that forms nouns meaning a female +++, as in lioness, tigress, heiress, hostess, and sculptress

【相关描述】When -ess is added to a noun ending in -tor, -ter, the vowel before r is generally elided (eliminated or left out), as in actress (actor + -ess); and such a derivative with the ending -tress (often equivalent to French ) is usually considered a reduced form of Latin -trix, -tricem and popularly regarded as the equivalent of -tor + -ess.

In Middle English many words in -esse were adopted from French; such as, countess, duchess, mistress, and princess, or formed on nouns in -er; such as, enchantress and sorceress.

The suffix -ess is diminishing from English usage, with trends or tendencies toward avoiding any unnecessary references to gender or sexual categorizing (feminine or masculine.

The suffixes -er and -or are no longer gender-specific in modern English: an author or manager, like a doctor or writer, may be male or female, so the words authoress and manageress are considered redundant.

Some -ess words remain in use; for example, heiress and actress, although actor is being used more often now for both men and women.

【同源单词】actress, adulteress, adventuress, ancestress, auditress, aviatress

词根词缀：gram-, -gram-, -gram, -grammatic, -grammatical, -grammatically, -gramme, -grammic

【来源及含义】Greek: write, writing, something written, a written record, a recording; letters; words; later, a small weight, a unit of mass in the metric system

【相关描述】A unit of weight in the metric system from 1797 gramme, borrowing of French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, "small weight"; from Greek gramma, "small weight"; originally, "something written"; from the stem of graphein, "to draw, to write".

【相关词根词缀】Related "writing" word units: glypto-; graph-; scrib-, script-.

【同源单词】accelerogram, achillogram, acoustogram, acrogram, acronym, actinogram

词根词缀：intra-

【来源及含义】Latin: within, inside, on the inside

【相关描述】Borrowed from late Latin intra-; closely related to inter-, "between". The use of intra- is largely a product of modern times, occurring in words of common and technical vocabulary, where once it was generally a term used in science and the academic world.

While some words are borrowings from Medieval and even Late Latin, few if any come from Classical Latin.

【相关词根词缀】Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "internal organs, entrails, inside": ent-; enter-; fistul-; incret-; inter-; splanchn-; viscer-.

【同源单词】Ab intra, abdominohysterotomy, Discere si cupias intra, endopelvic, international, intra muros

词根词缀：secul-

【来源及含义】Latin: from Old French seculer; from Late Latin sæcularis, worldly, living in the world, not belonging to a religious order; from saecularis, pertaining to a generation or age; from saeculum, saeclum, period of a man's life, generation; period of a hundred years

【同源单词】secular, secularism, secularist, secularistic, secularity, secularization

词根词缀：seri-, serio-

【来源及含义】Latin: weighty, important, grave [from French sérieux (feminine sériuse), from Late Latin seriosus, from earlier Latin serius]

【同源单词】jocoserious, overserious, seriocomic, serious, seriously, seriousness

词根词缀：sinic-, sino-

【来源及含义】Latin: Chinese, from Medieval Latin Sinicus, "Chinese", from Sina, "China", from Late Latin Sinae, "the Chinese"; Sino-, "Chinese people, language, etc."

【同源单词】sicinized, Sinic, sinication, Sinicism, Sinicization, sinicize

词根词缀：tentacu-, tentac-

【来源及含义】Late Latin: feeler, to feel; a flexible appendage serving as an organ for moving around or for touching

【同源单词】bitentacle, bitentaculate, cnidarian tentacle, multitentacular, octotentacle, pinnitentacular

词根词缀：visco-, visc-, viscos-, viscosi-

【来源及含义】Latin: sticky, stickiness

【相关描述】From Late Latin viscidus, from Latin viscum, "mistletoe".

【同源单词】viscid, viscidity, viscidium, viscidness, viscidosis, viscim