词根词缀：spous-

【来源及含义】Latin: betrothed man, groom; betrothed woman, bride; both come from sponsus, past participle of spondere, "to promise, betroth" from Old French, espous [masculine, male]; espouse [feminine, female]

【相关词根词缀】This spous- unit is directly related to the spond-, spons- unit.

【同源单词】espousal, espouse, espoused, espouser, spousal, spousals

词根词缀：spurci-

【来源及含义】Latin: dirty, foul, impure; spurcus, spurcitia

【同源单词】spurcidical, spurcitious, spurcity

词根词缀：sput-

【来源及含义】Latin: spit, saliva, expectorated matter

【相关词根词缀】Other related saliva and/or spittle units: ptyalo-; salivo-; sialo-.

【同源单词】sput, sputaminous, sputation, sputative, spute, sputter

词根词缀：squam-

【来源及含义】Latin: scale; like scales

【同源单词】Annona squamosa, basosquamous carcinoma, blepharitis squamosa, desquamation, desquamative, papulosquamous

词根词缀：stalac-, stalag-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: dropping, dripping; trickling; to drip, to drop, to trickle

【相关词根词缀】 Related "cave, cavern" word sources: cav-, cavern; speleo-; spelunc-, spelunk-; troglo-.

【同源单词】stalactic, stalactical, stalactiform, stalactite, stalactite, stalactitic

词根词缀：-stalsis, -staltic (suffix)

【来源及含义】Greek: contraction; to gather, to constrict

【同源单词】antiperistalsis, antiperistaltic, bradydiastalsis, bradystalsis, catastalsis, hyperperistalsis

词根词缀：staphyl-, staphylo-

【来源及含义】Greek: bunch of grapes, uvula [that which resembles a grape hanging from a stock]; staphylococci, grape-shaped bacteria occurring in irregular clusters

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are derived directly, or indirectly, from: "grape, grapes": acin-; racem-; uveo-; uvul-.

【同源单词】ciliary staphyloma, MRSA infection, ophiostaphyle, peristaphyline, peristaphylitis, staphylectomy

词根词缀：stato-, stat-, sta-, -static, -stasi, staso-, -stasis, -stasia, -stacy, -stitute, -stitution, -sist

【来源及含义】Latin: standing, to stay, to make firm, fixed; cause to stand, to put, to place, to put in place; to stand still

【相关词根词缀】 Related word families intertwined with "to place, placing, to put; to add; to stay; to attach" word units: fix-; pon-; prosth-; the-, thes-.

【同源单词】abstistic, aerostat, aerostatic, aerostatics, amyostasia, amyostatic

词根词缀：stauro-, staur-

【来源及含义】Greek: upright stake; hence, "rood, cross"; cross-shaped, crosslike, crossed

【相关描述】Rood comes from Old English and means, "rod, pole; measure of land; cross".

【同源单词】stauractine, Staurikosaurids, Staurikosaurus, staurion, staurogamy, staurolatrian

词根词缀：-staxis, -stactic, -stactical, -stactically

【来源及含义】Greek: a trickling; oozing; to drip, dripping; denoting a flow of some kind, or from some source

【同源单词】angiostaxis, apostaxis, bronchostaxis, cystistaxis, enterostaxis, epistaxis