词根词缀：cast-

【来源及含义】Latin: pure, cut off, to cut off from, separated

【相关描述】A reference to "a race of men" is from Latin casto, "chaste" from castus, "pure, cut off, separated"; past participle of carere, "to be cut off from" (and related to castrate and -cest-).

【相关词根词缀】 Related cutting-word units: castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; mutil-; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; -tomy; trunc-.

【同源单词】caste, castigate, castigation, castigatory, chaste, chastely

词根词缀：cern-, cert-, cer-; cret-, creet-, cre-

【来源及含义】Latin: to separate, to sift, to distinguish, to understand, to decide, to determine; separated, separation, to set apart; the glandular extraction or the movement out of a natural substance

【相关描述】Used to express the ability a person has to distinguish, or to perceive, something with the eyes and the mind. Related to crit-; as in criticize, diacritical, critique, etc.

【同源单词】ascertain, ascertainable, ascertainment, certain, certainly, certainty

词根词缀：crim-, crimino-

【来源及含义】Latin: judicial decision, verdict; object of reproach, judgement; legal offense, fault, accusation

【相关描述】Closely related to the cern- family of "separated, set apart" words.

【同源单词】crime, crime victim, criminal, criminal, criminal anthropology, criminality