词根词缀：-acity

【来源及含义】Latin: suffix; quality of

【相关描述】A suffix that forms nouns of quality or state. There are hundreds of other -acity suffixes; however, the following will present significant examples.

【同源单词】audacity, bellacity, bibacity, capacity, carnivoracity, contumacity

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：ten-, tent-, tin-, -tain, -tainment, -tenance, -tinence

【来源及含义】Latin: hold, grasp, have

【同源单词】abstain, abstain, abstainer, abstaining, abstemious, abstention

词根词缀：tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: to move in a certain direction; to stretch, to hold out; tension; as well as tendon, sinew

【同源单词】Achilles tendon, achillotenotomy, attend, attendance, attendance, attendant