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词根:-tom-

【词根含义】:切,割

【同源单词】:anatomy, atom, atomic

前缀:a-

【词根含义】:在,到;来,临近;离开;否定;副词前缀;加强意义

【词根来源】:来源于古英语和中古英语a-, an, on。

【同源单词】:aboard, abroad, acentric, across, ago

词根词缀:a-, an-

【来源及含义】Greek: prefix; no, absence of, without, lack of; not

【相关描述】These prefixes are normally used with elements of Greek origin, a- is used before consonants and an- is used before vowels.

It affects the meanings of hundreds of words.

There are too many words that use these prefix elements to list all of them on this site; however, there are significant examples listed in this and the other units where they exist.

【同源单词】abacterial, abaptism, abarognosis, abasia, abiocoen, abiogenesis

词根词缀:tomo-,-tom, -toma, -tomic, -tomize, -tome, -tomical, -tomically, -tomist, -tomous, -tomy; -otomy

【来源及含义】Greek: cut, incision; section; more often used as a suffix

【相关词根词缀】 Related cutting-word units: cast-; castrat-; -cise, -cide; -ectomy; mutil-; put-; sec-, seg-; temno-; trunc-.

【同源单词】anatomy, atom, cephalotomy, cirsotomy, colostomy, computerized tomography