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词根词缀:anima-, anim-

【来源及含义】Latin: animal life, a living creature; living; breath; soul; mind

【相关描述】The Latin element, anima-, refers to “a living being” from a Latin form meaning, “of air, having a spirit, living”; which in turn comes from another form meaning, “breath of air, air, soul, life”.

【相关词根词缀】 Related "animal" units: faun-; therio-; zoo-. Related life, live-word units: bio-; -cole; vita-; viva-. Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "mind, mental" word units: anima-; anxi-; deliri-; hallucina-; menti-; moro-; noo-; nous; phreno-; psych-; thymo-2.

【同源单词】anima, animadversion, animadversive, animadversiveness, animadvert, animadverter

词根词缀:equ-, equi-

【来源及含义】Latin: same, similar, even, uniform, identical; fair

【相关描述】Don't confuse this unit with another equ- unit meaning horse.

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "equal, identical, same, similar": auto-; emul-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer; rhomb-; syn-; tauto-.

【同源单词】adequacy, adequate, coequal, coequality, coequalize, coequally

词根词缀:-ous, -ious, -eous

【来源及含义】Latin: full of or having the qualities of; in chemistry, a suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

【相关描述】Only a small number of the hundreds of examples are presented because there are just too many to include at this time.

【同源单词】abdominous, abiogenous, ablepharous, abstemious, acanthaceous, acanthocephalous