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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:-gate

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; from agere to set in motion, to drive, to lead; to do, to act

【同源单词】abnegate, abrogate, aggregate, alligate, arrogate, bifurgate