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词根:bell = beautiful, war

  来自拉丁语的bell意为beautiful,war,在盎格鲁-撒克逊语里意为bag,to swell。当bell 用做beautiful 这一含义时,其同义词根有来自拉丁语的pulchr和来自希腊语的calli,cosmet。

(*拉丁文 bellum(=war) —— 英文根字典)

同源词:

1. embellish(使变美丽em<en(=make) + bell (=beautiful))
  vt. sth + with + sth 美化;装饰;使(故事等)更有趣;润色
  embellishment n.装饰(物);润色
  She embellished the cake with real cut flowers. 她用折来的鲜花装饰蛋糕。

2. belle
  n.美女 *bell (=beautiful) ,e(=person who)
  the belle of the ball/society 舞会花魁/交际花

3. belles-lettres
  n.<法>纯文学(与商业,技术、科学等文献相对)*bell (=beautiful)

4. belladonna
  n.(植物)颠茄;颠茄制剂 *bell (=beautiful),don(=give)

5. bellicose
  adj.<正>好战的,好争吵的,好斗的;黩武 *bell(=war)

6. Bellona
  n.司战女神 *bell(=war)
  Mars 战神

7. rebel
  n.造反者;叛逆者;反抗者 adj.选择者,叛逆的 v.造反;反叛;反抗 *re(=against) ,bell(=war)
  rebel forces 叛军

8. rebellion
  n.造反,叛乱 *re(against),bell(=war)
  rebellion against the dictator 针对独裁者的叛乱

9. rebellious
  adj.造反的;反叛的;难控制的 *re(=against),bell(=war)
  rebellious behavior 造反行为

10. antebellum
  adj.战争前的;(特指)美国南北战争前夕的(<-->postbellum战后的)*ante(=before),bell(=war))

11. belly
  n.肚子,腹部;胃;鼓起(或凹进去的)部分(小提琴等的腰部)v. 涨满,鼓胀 *bell(=bag,swell)
  belly button 肚脐
  The sails bellied in the wind. 帆在风中鼓起

12. Belgium
  n.比利时

13. bellied
  adj.(构成合成词)有腹的;腹...的 *bell(=bag,swell)
  big-bellied 大腹便便的
  empty-bellied children 饥肠辘辘的孩子们

14. bellyful
  n.过量(of);满腹 *bell(=bag,swell)
  a bellyful of advice 过多的功告

15. bellow
  n.(像牛一样)吼叫,怒吼,咆哮;大声发出 *bell(=bag,swell)
  bellow out a drinking song 放声高唱祝酒歌

16. bellows
  n.(用以送风助火的或风琴的)风箱;肺 *bell(=bag,swell)

词根:ple, plen, plet, pli = full, fill, 表示“满, 填满”

complement n. 补足,补全(com全部+ple+ment→全部满→补足)

implement n. 工具v. 完成;实施(im进+ple+ment→进入满→完成)

supplement n. 增补,补充(sup在下面,次要+ple+ment→增加次要的心填满→增补)

plenty n. 大量,丰富( plen+ty)

plentitude n. 丰富,充足(plent+itude→满的状态→丰富)

deplenish v. 倒空,弄空(de去掉+plen+ish→去掉满→倒空)

replenish v. 再装满(re再+plen满+ish→再弄满)

replete a. 充满的;吃饱的(re 再+plete→再满→吃饱)

complete a. 完全的(com 全部+plete满→全满→完全的)

completion n. 成就;圆满(com+plet+ion)

accomplish v. 成就;完成(ac+com+pli+ish→全部弄满→完成)

accomplished a. 有成就的,有造诣的(accomplish+ed)

compliment v. 赞扬,恭维(com全部+pli+ment→[让人]+分满足→恭维[别人])

词根:dot = give (给)

antidote 解毒药(anti对抗毒)

anecdote 轶事;短故事(an不+ec出+dote——not published——没出版的小故事)

词根词缀:academ-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: [originally, Academus/Akademus, a name of a hero in Greek mythology; then it became a gymnasium near Athens where Plato taught]

【相关描述】In the beginning, academy referred to the "olive grove of Academus" or "the groves of Academe". Plato established his school in 387 B.C. Music, philosophy, and literature were taught there. Some accounts say that Plato sat on the ground and taught while resting against the trunk of an olive tree.

Now academies generally exist as private-secondary schools, military institutions; as art, literary, and scientific societies; and institutions in the entertainment world. According to John Ayto, the more general meanings "college, place of training" derive from French.

【同源单词】academe, academia, academic, academical, academician, academicism

词根词缀:-ase

【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix indicating an enzyme

【相关描述】From Greek diastasis and then (diast)ase, separation, interval [from dia-, through, apart, plus stasis, a standing]; an amylase that converts starch to maltose. Added to the name of a substance it usually indicates an enzyme that hydrolyzes that substance; for example, proteinases hydrolyze proteins and asparaginase hydrolyzes asparagine.

This suffix is also described as the termination denoting an enzyme, suffixed to the name of the substance (substrate) upon which the enzyme acts; e.g., phosphatase, lipase, and proteinase. It may also indicate the reaction catalyzed, e.g., decarboxylase and oxidase. Enzymes named before the convention was established generally have an -in ending; e.g., pepsin, ptyalin, and trypsin.

【同源单词】anhydrase, colipase, creatinase, cyclase, dextrase, glutaminase

词根词缀:lisso-, liss-

【来源及含义】Greek: smooth, polished

【同源单词】lissencephalia, lissosphincter, lissotrichy

词根词缀:ple-, pleini-, plen-, plet-

【来源及含义】Latin: fill, full

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing": copi-; exuber-; hyper-; multi-; opulen-; pleio-; plethor-; poly-; super-; total-; ultra-; undu-.

【同源单词】accomplish, accomplished, accomplishment, complement, complement, complemental

词根词缀:poli-

【来源及含义】Latin: polire, to polish, to smooth, to shine; to refine

【同源单词】apple polisher, nail polish, polish, polish, polished, polisher

词根词缀:syphilo-, syphil-, syphili-, syphi-

【来源及含义】Latin: Syphil[us], the eponymous main character of Girolamo Fracastoro's poem "Syphilus sive Morbus Gallicus" [Syphilus, or the French Disease], published at Verona, Italy [1530]

【相关描述】Syphilis is a venereal disease (of which Fracastoro's hero Syphilus, was a victim) and is caused by the microorganism Treponema pallidum.

Syphilus was a shepard whose name literally means a "friend of swine". Perhaps it was derived from Greek syn-, "together", plus philein "to love", or from Greek siphlos, "crippled, maimed". No one seems to know for certain.

【同源单词】antisyphilitic, dermosyphilopathy, neurosyphilis, syphilide, syphilionthus, syphiliphobia