词根词缀：agape-

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: love feast of the early Christians; love, love feast; to love

【相关词根词缀】Related "love, fondness" units: amat-; philo-; vener-; venus.

【同源单词】agapae, Agapanthus, agape, agapeistic, Agapemone, Agapios

词根词缀：amat-, amor-, am-

【来源及含义】Latin: love, loving; fondness for; such as a man for a woman and a woman for a man

【相关词根词缀】This "love" unit is the main source of the words in the ami- or "friend" unit. Related "love, fondness" units: agape-; philo-; vener-; venus.

【同源单词】amateur, amateurish, amateurishly, amateurishness, amative, amatively

词根词缀：mania-, -mania, -maniac, -maniacal, -manic, -manically, -maniacally

【来源及含义】Greek: a specific mental disorder or obsessive preoccupation with something; madness, frenzy; obsession, or abnormal desire for or with something or someone; also, an excessive enthusiasm or fondness for something

【相关词根词缀】 Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "anger, angry; rage, wrath, fury; rave": fur-, furi-; ira-; lysso-; rab-, rav-.

【同源单词】ablutomania, aboulomania, acromania, acronymania, adipomania, aedoeomania

词根词缀：philo-, phil-, -phile, -philia, -philic, -philous, -phily, -philiac, -philist, -philism

【来源及含义】Greek: love, loving, friendly to, fondness for, attraction to; strong tendency toward, affinity for

【相关描述】These are just a few of the meanings set up for the etymological meanings of philo- which comes to us from Greek.

In biology, there are many words that use philo-, phil- to mean "thriving in such and such a place or situation; or exhibiting a tendency for a specified condition" for its existence.

Other meanings include: "strongly attracted to; such as, an organism that loves or is strongly attracted to something which is specified".

In psychology and psychiatry, -phile, -philia, etc. use this element as a word termination indicating an abnormal craving or attraction to or an affinity for an object as shown by the word stems to which they are affixed.

【相关词根词缀】Related "love, fondness" units: agape-; amat-; vener-; venus.

【同源单词】abrakophile, abrakophilia, abrakophilism, acarophile, acarophilous, acarophily

词根词缀：venat-, vener-

【来源及含义】Latin: to hunt; hunting

【相关词根词缀】Here is an attempt to clarify the different "hunt, hunting" and the "love, fondness" terms: vener-, "love, sexual references"; Names for Groups or "Venery names"; Introduction to Venereal and Other Group Terms or "Venery names"; Venereal Terms or "names for a variety of groups".

【同源单词】venatic, venatical, venatically, venationes, venatious, venator

词根词缀：vener-, venari-

【来源及含义】Latin: love, loveliness, beauty, attractiveness, charm; by extension, "reverence; to worship, to venerate"

【相关词根词缀】Related "love, fondness" units: agape-; amat-; philo-; venus. Here is an attempt to clarify the different "hunt, hunting" and the "love, fondness" terms: venat-, "hunt, hunting"; Names for Groups or "Venery names"; Introduction to Venereal and Other Group Terms or "Venery names"; Venereal Terms or "names for a variety of groups".

【同源单词】venerable, venerate, veneration, venereal, venerealization, venerealize