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词根词缀:frug-, fruct-

【来源及含义】Latin: fruit; from Old French fruit, from Latin fructus, "fruit, produce, profit" from frug-, stem of frui, "to use, to enjoy" (cognate with Old English brucan, "to enjoy"

【同源单词】fructescence, fructicole, fructiferous, fructification, fructifier, fructify

词根词缀:in-3

【来源及含义】Old English, Middle English: in, into; within; toward; a prefix used in front of English words, not Latin or Greek elements; as in the words, indoors and inland

【相关描述】Don't confuse this in-3, meaning "in, into; within", with another in-2 Latin prefix meaning "in, into, within, inside, on, toward" or with the Latin prefix in-1 meaning "not".

【同源单词】inarm, inbeing, inboard, inborn, inbound, inbreathe

词根词缀:-ish

【来源及含义】Old English: a suffix meaning, characteristic of, like, tending to; of or relating to, from; somewhat, approximately; or a verb ending

【相关描述】A suffix used to form adjectives from nouns and from adjectives. It refers to "relation, resemblance, similarity", and sometimes has a diminutive force; such as, "selfish, boyish, brutish; whitish, somewhat white".

A verb ending, originally appearing in certain verbs of French origin; such as, "abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish", and "impoverish".

【同源单词】abolish, accomplish, acutish, admonish, anguish, anguish

词根词缀:-less

【来源及含义】Old English: -leas, from leas, "free from, devoid of, false, feigned"; suffix meaning "lacking"

【同源单词】aimless, artless, avoidless, causeless, ceaseless, charmless

词根词缀:linguo-, lingu-, lingua-, -linguist, -linguistic, -linguistical, -linguistically

【来源及含义】Latin: literally tongue; and by extension, speech, language

【相关描述】From Old Latin dingua which is a cognate (kindred) with Old English tunge, The change of d (in Old Latin dingua) to l (in Latin lingua) was probably due to dialectal influence (the so-called "Sabine l"). It was facilitated by a folk-etymological association with lingere, "to lick", the tongue having been conceived as "the licking organ".

【相关词根词缀】Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.

【同源单词】acutilingual, alveololingual, ambilingualism, anthropological linguistics, apex linguae, audiolingual

词根词缀:mantel-, mantle-, -manteau

【来源及含义】Latin: mantellum, cloak, veil; by way of Middle English, from Old English mentel and from Old French mantel; resulting in English words that include: mantle, mantel, and manteau

【同源单词】dismantle, dismantlement, dismantler, dismantling, lower mantle, manta

词根词缀:martyr-

【来源及含义】Greek: (martus, martur-); Late Greek: (martur); Late Ecclesiastical Latin (martyr), Old English (martyr), Middle English (martir); witness

【相关描述】Adopted directly into most Germanic languages, but Old Norse substituted native formation pislarvattr, literally, "torture-witness".

【同源单词】martyr, martyr, martyrdom, martyred, martyrium, martyrize

词根词缀:ox-

【来源及含义】Indo-European > Old English: male bovine

【相关词根词缀】Related "bovine; cow, ox, bull" word units: bou-; bovo-; tauro-; vaccino-.

【同源单词】Grunting Ox, Ox, ox

词根词缀:stauro-, staur-

【来源及含义】Greek: upright stake; hence, "rood, cross"; cross-shaped, crosslike, crossed

【相关描述】Rood comes from Old English and means, "rod, pole; measure of land; cross".

【同源单词】stauractine, Staurikosaurids, Staurikosaurus, staurion, staurogamy, staurolatrian

词根词缀:zephyro-, zephyr-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: west wind [Old English zefferus from Latin zephyrus from Greek zephuros]

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word groups that are related, directly or indirectly, to: "air, wind": aello-; aeolo-; aero-; anemo-; atmo-; austro-; flat-, flatu-; phys-; pneo-, -pnea; pneumato-; turb-; vent-.

【同源单词】zephrean, zephyr, zephyr cloth, Zephyrosaurus, Zephyrus