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词根词缀:-able

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; expressing capacity, fitness to do that which can be handled or managed, suitable skills to accomplish something; capable of being done, something which can be finished, etc.

【相关描述】A suffix that forms adjectives. The suffix -ible has related meanings; expressing ability, capacity, fitness; capable of, fit for, able to be done, can be done, inclined to, tending to, given to.

This list is only a small sample of the thousands of -able words that exist in English.

【同源单词】abdicable, -able, abolishable, abominable, abradable, acceptable

词根词缀:in-1

【来源及含义】Latin: no, not [ig-, il-, im-, ir-]

【相关描述】This in-, "not", becomes i- before gn, as with "ignore"; il- before l, as with illiterate; im- before b, m; and p, as with imbalance, immiscible, impecunious; and ir- before r, as with irrefragable.

Don't confuse this Latin prefix, in-1, meaning "not", with another Latin prefix in-2 meaning "in, into, within, inside, on, toward" or with the prefix for English-origin words in-3 meaning "in, into; within".

【同源单词】ignorance, illiterate, imbalance, immaculate, immature, immovable

词根词缀:mot-, moto-, -motile, -motility, -motorial, -motoric, -motive, -motored; mov-

【来源及含义】Latin: move, motion

【相关词根词缀】Related "move, motion" word units: cine-; kine-; mobil-; oscillo-; seismo-; vibro-.

【同源单词】acousticomotor, agrimotor, algiomotor, anemotactic, anemotaxis, arteriomotor