词根词缀：bou-, bu-

【来源及含义】Greek: cow, ox

【相关词根词缀】Related "bovine; cow, ox, bull" word units: bovo-; ox-; tauro-; vaccino-.

【同源单词】boulimia, bucolic, bucranium, bugle, bugle, bugler

词根词缀：cranio-, crani-, cran-

【来源及含义】Greek > Medieval Latin [c.700-c.1500]: head, skull

【同源单词】acrania, aegicrania, amphicrania, attached craniotomy, auriculocranial, bucranium

词根词缀：-ium

【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix; scientific names; names of metallic elements; a part, lining, or enveloping tissue, region; little; representing a diminutive force

【相关描述】A suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin; especially, derivatives of verbs (odium; tedium; colloquium; delirium); deverbal compounds with the initial element denoting the object of the verb (nasturtium); other types of compounds (equilibrium; millennium); and derivatives of personal nouns, often denoting the associated status or office (collegium; consortium; magisterium).

This ending of -ium also occurs in scientific terms on a Latin model; such as, in names of metallic elements (barium; titanium) and as a Latinization of Greek -ion (pericardium).

【同源单词】acute delirium, agrobacterium, aigialium, alluvium, andrium, anthium

词根词缀：-um

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: a suffix that forms singular nouns

【相关描述】Here are just a few of the hundreds of words that end with -um.

【同源单词】abandum, abortorium, absorption spectrum, acropodium, actinium, acute delirium