词根词缀:genus, genesis-, -gen, -gene, -genesis, -genetic, -genic, -geny, -genous
【来源及含义】Latin: birth, beget; descent, origin, creation, inception, beginning, race, sort; kind, class
【同源单词】aerospace engineering, agenesis, autogenous, benign, benignant, benignantly
词根词缀:-ity
【来源及含义】Latin: suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing act, state, quality, property, or condition corresponding to an adjective
【同源单词】abnormality, absorbability, acclivity, acerbity, acridity, acrity
词根词缀:mal-, male-, mali-
【来源及含义】Latin: bad, badly, harsh, wrong; ill; evil; abnormal, defective; used primarily as a prefix
【相关描述】This combining form has no etymological connection to "male", meaning "man" or "masculine"; despite what some women may think.
【相关词根词缀】Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "bad, wrong": caco-, kako-; dys-; mis-; pessim-; sceler-.
【同源单词】benediction, benevolence, grand mal seizure, mala fide, mala fide, Mala ultro adsunt