词根词缀：alter-

【来源及含义】Latin: different, other, another; to change, to modify

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-; vari-.

【同源单词】Ab alio expectes, adulterant, adulterate, adulteration, adulterer, adulteress

词根词缀：alto-, alt-, alti-

【来源及含义】Latin: high, highest, make high; tall, lofty

【同源单词】Ab alio expectes, Alta pete, altar, altar, altazimuth, altigraph

词根词缀：altrici-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: nourisher; wet nurse; midwife

【同源单词】altrice, altricial, altricious

词根词缀：alumino-, alumin-

【来源及含义】Latin: aluminum [U.S.] and aluminium, [British]

【相关描述】This term was coined in 1812 by its discoverer, the British chemist Sir Humphry Davy, as an alteration of the earlier [1808] New Latin alumium, that was also coined by Sir Davy from alumina, a mineral occurring in nature as corundum plus -ium, a suffix meaning, in this case, "metal").

The variant form aluminium, which is preferred in British usage, also appeared in 1812 as a deliberate alteration of aluminum in order to eliminate confusion because of the partial resemblance to other names of certain elements, such as sodium, potassium, and magnesium, all of which were coined earlier by Sir Davy.

【同源单词】aluminate, alumine, aluminium, Aluminoid, aluminosis, aluminothermy

词根词缀：alveolo-, alveol-, alve-, alveat-

【来源及含义】Latin: trough, channel; small cavity, small pit; hollow

【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-; meato-; ora-; parieto-; poro-; pyl-, pyle-; pylor-; sphinctero-; splanchn-; stomato-; syringo-; uretero-; urethro-; vagino-; ventricul-.

【同源单词】alvei, alveoalgia, alveobronchiolitis, alveolar, alveolate, alveolectomy

词根词缀：amalga-

【来源及含义】Latin: Medieval Latin amalgama, perhaps from malagma, "poultice" or "plaster"

【同源单词】amalgam, amalgam retort, amalgam treatment, amalgamate, amalgamation, amalgamation pan

词根词缀：amat-, amor-, am-

【来源及含义】Latin: love, loving; fondness for; such as a man for a woman and a woman for a man

【相关词根词缀】This "love" unit is the main source of the words in the ami- or "friend" unit. Related "love, fondness" units: agape-; philo-; vener-; venus.

【同源单词】amateur, amateurish, amateurishly, amateurishness, amative, amatively

词根词缀：amatho-, amath-, amathi-

【来源及含义】Greek: sand [dust]

【相关词根词缀】Other related "sand" units: ammo-; areni-; silico-; thino-.

【同源单词】amathad, amathicole, amathocole, amathomancy, amathophile, amathophobia

词根词缀：amaxo-, amax-, amathi-

【来源及含义】Greek: wagon, vehicle

【同源单词】amaxomania, amaxophobia

词根词缀：ambi-, amb-, ambo-

【来源及含义】Latin: both, on both sides; around, about; vague; obscure

【相关词根词缀】 Related "around, round, surrounding" units: ampho-; circ-; circum-; cyclo-, -cycle; gyro-; peri-.

【同源单词】ambiance, ambiciliate, ambicolorate, ambidexter, ambidexterity, ambidextrous