词根词缀：gel-, gela-, gelati-, gelatino-, geli-, gelo-

【来源及含义】Latin: to freeze; frosting; cold; then, to congeal, and finally: gelatin

【相关描述】Later it came to mean "to congeal"; having to do with "congealing" or with "gelatin, a protein derived from the partial hydrolysis of animal skin, connective tissue, and bone".

Don't confuse words from this Latin element with those from Greek gelo-, geloto-, meaning "laugh, laughing, laughter".

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are related directly or indirectly to "winter, freezing, frost, and/or cold": algid- (cold, chilly); cheimo-, chimo- (winter, cold); crymo-, krymo- (cold, chill, frost); cryo-, kryo-; (cold, freezing); hiber- (winter, wintry); pago- (cold, freezing); psychro- (cold); rhigo- (cold, frost; shiver).

【同源单词】aerogel, gel, gelase, gelasis, gelate, gelatification

词根词缀：gelo-, geloto-

【来源及含义】Greek: laugh, laughter, laughing

【相关描述】Don't confuse words from this Greek element with those from Latin gel-, gelat-, gelati-, meaning "freeze; congeal; gelatin".

For other laugh, laughter words, click on this cachinnate link.

【同源单词】agelast, dacrygelosis, gelasmus, gelastic, gelastic epilepsy, gelatologist

词根词缀：rid-, ridi-, risi-

【来源及含义】Latin: to laugh, laugh at; capable of exciting laughter; laughing

【同源单词】deride, derider, deridingly, derision, derisive, derisively