词根词缀：-acrasy, -acrasia, -acratia

【来源及含义】Greek: suffix; weakness, weak; powerless; incontinence, lack of control; impotent

【相关描述】The applications of incontinent and incontinence for this unit refer to: lacking self control, uncontrolled; the inability to restrain the passions or appetites, particularly the sexual appetite; indulging in unlawful lust; unchaste; lewd; and in medicine, unable to restrain natural bodily evacuations.

【同源单词】acrasy, copracrasia, phallacrasia, potacrasia, scoracratia, sitacrasia

词根词缀：arid-

【来源及含义】Latin: to be dry; lacking enough water for things to grow, dry and barren; by extension, not interesting, lifeless, dull

【相关词根词缀】Cross reference of another word family related to: "dry": xer-, xero-.

【同源单词】areal, arid, arid-agriculture, aridity, aridly, aridness

词根词缀：-less

【来源及含义】Old English: -leas, from leas, "free from, devoid of, false, feigned"; suffix meaning "lacking"

【同源单词】aimless, artless, avoidless, causeless, ceaseless, charmless

词根词缀：lipo-, leip-, leips-, lips-

【来源及含义】Greek, elleipsis, elleipo, elleipein; Latin, ellipsis: abandon, to leave [behind]; fail; lack, lacking; be wanting

【同源单词】eclipse, ecliptic, ellipse, ellipsis, ellipsoid, elliptical

词根词缀：thalasso-, thalass-, thalassi-, thalassio-, thalatto-, thalatt-

【来源及含义】Greek: sea, ocean

【相关描述】Traditionally, there are five oceans: the Atlantic, the Pacific, the Indian, the Arctic, and the Antarctic. The Antarctic Ocean, lacking any precise natural boundaries, is sometimes considered an extension of the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian oceans.

The adjacent bodies of salt water and various subdivisions of the oceans are generally known as seas, but local usage may also sanction such terms as gulfs, bays, channels, and straits; designations that are sometimes used interchangeably.

【相关词根词缀】Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "sea" and the "ocean" bodies of water: abysso- (bottomless); Atlantic; batho-, bathy- (depth); bentho- (deep, depth); halio-, halo- (salt or "the sea"); mare, mari- (sea); necto-, nekto- (swimming); oceano-; pelago- (sea, ocean); plankto- (drifting).

【同源单词】limnothalassa, Panthalassa, thalassemia, thalassian, thalassiarchy, thalassic