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词根词缀:anima-, anim-

【来源及含义】Latin: animal life, a living creature; living; breath; soul; mind

【相关描述】The Latin element, anima-, refers to “a living being” from a Latin form meaning, “of air, having a spirit, living”; which in turn comes from another form meaning, “breath of air, air, soul, life”.

【相关词根词缀】 Related "animal" units: faun-; therio-; zoo-. Related life, live-word units: bio-; -cole; vita-; viva-. Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "mind, mental" word units: anima-; anxi-; deliri-; hallucina-; menti-; moro-; noo-; nous; phreno-; psych-; thymo-2.

【同源单词】anima, animadversion, animadversive, animadversiveness, animadvert, animadverter

词根词缀:-ine

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: a suffix that is used to form hundreds of words that mean: similar to, resembling, like, characterized by, or of the nature of

【相关描述】This element is also utilized to form abstract nouns; feminine common nouns; and it is used in chemistry to form names of alkaloids and bases or names of elements.

【同源单词】absinthine, acanthine, acarine, accipitrine, acephaline, acervuline