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词根词缀：phront-, phorntid-; phronemo-, phron-

【来源及含义】Greek: thought, care, attention; think, thinking, contemplation

【相关描述】The Greeks had a word, phrontisterion, to indicate a place for thought and study or a "thinking-shop" (think tank?). Aristophanes (c. 450-c. 380 B.C.), was an Athenian dramatist who is known to have written more than 40 comedies that gave satiric expression to his strong, conservative prejudices against certain trends and personalities in the Athens of his day. It was this Aristophanes who used the Greek equivalent of phrontistery to ridicule the school of Socrates.

The Greek noun was derived from phrontistes (philosopher, profound thinker, one with intellectual pretensions) from the verb phrontizein (to reflect), based on phrontis (thought, reflection). The word phrontist applies to a "deep thinker," a "person involved in study, reflection, meditation," and it, too, in its Greek form, was applied ironically by Aristophanes to Socrates himself.

【同源单词】philophronesis, phronemophobia, phronesis, phronosis, phrontifugic, phrontistery

词根词缀：phryno-, phryn-

【来源及含义】Greek: toad

【同源单词】phrynin, phrynoderma, phrynodermia, phrynolysin, phrynolysine, Phrynosoma

词根词缀：phtheir-, phtheiro-, phthiri-, phthirio-

【来源及含义】Greek: louse, lice

【同源单词】Phthiraptera, phthiriasis, phthiriophobia, phthirophagous, Phthirus, Phthirus pubis

词根词缀：phthisio-, phthis-, phthi-, -phthisis

【来源及含义】Greek: decay, waste away, waning; loss, diminution

【相关描述】In the past, tuberculosis was called consumption, because it seemed to consume people from within, with a bloody cough, fever, pallor, and long relentless wasting. Other names included phthisis, Greek for "consumption" and phthisis pulmonalis.

【相关词根词缀】 Word families with similar applications about: "decay, rotten; wasting away; putrid, pus" word units: puro- (pus); pus (viscous fluid via an infection); pustu- (blister, pimple); putre- (rotten, decayed); pyo- (pus; purulent); sapro- (rotten, putrid, putrefaction, decay); sepsi- (decay, rot, putrefactive); suppurant- (festering, forming or discharging pus); tabe- (wasting away, decaying).