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词根词缀:-ac

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: suffix; from French -aque, or directly from Latin -acus, from Greek -akos forming adjectives. This suffix was used to form names of arts and sciences in Greek and it is now generally used to form new names of sciences in English; meanings, "related to, of the nature of, pertaining to, referring to"

【相关描述】The suffix -ic has related elements.

【同源单词】ambrosiac, ammoniac, amnesiac, anaphrodisiac, anthomaniac, antidemoniac

词根词缀:anti-, ant-

【来源及含义】Greek: against, opposed to, preventive; used as a prefix

【相关描述】Don't confuse this anti- ("against, preventive") with the anti- which means "before".

【同源单词】anecdote, antacid, antagonism, antagonistic symbiosis, antagonize, Antarctic

词根词缀:demono-, demon-, -demonic, -demon, -demonical, -demoniac, daemono-, -daemonic, -daemonical, -daemon, -daemoniac, -daemonia, -daemoniacally, -daimon, -daimonic

【来源及含义】Greek: devil, demon [evil spirit]; an intermediary spirit between gods and men which could be good or evil

【同源单词】ademonist, agathodemon, agathodemonic, antidemoniac, cacodaemonomania, cacodemon