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词根词缀:-ability

【来源及含义】Latin: suffix; expressing ability, capacity, fitness, or "that which may be easily handled or managed"

【相关描述】Just a few examples out of hundreds of words presented as the noun forms of -able; forming nouns of quality from, or corresponding to, adjectives in -able; the quality in an agent that makes an action possible. The suffix -ible has related meanings.

【同源单词】absolute permeability, absorbability, accountability, achievability, acquirability, adaptability

词根词缀:-ity

【来源及含义】Latin: suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing act, state, quality, property, or condition corresponding to an adjective

【同源单词】abnormality, absorbability, acclivity, acerbity, acridity, acrity

词根词缀:meato-, meat-, mea-

【来源及含义】Latin: opening or passageway in the body, bodily opening or canal; to go, to pass, passage

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of other word family units that are related directly, indirectly, or partially with: "opening, hole, cavity, tract, tube": alveolo-; antro-; anu-; celo-; coelio-; concho-; fenestra-; hernio-; hiat-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.

【同源单词】impermeable, irremeable, meatal, meatomastoidectomy, meatome, meatometer

词根词缀:per-

【来源及含义】Latin: through, across, over; beyond, by means of

【同源单词】Ad astra per aspera, Ad augusta per angust, Ad perpetuam rei memoriam, Ad virtutem per sapientiam, ampersand, antiperspirant