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词根词缀:auto-, aut-

【来源及含义】Greek: self, same, spontaneous; directed from within

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "equal, identical, same, similar": emul-; equ-, equi-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer; rhomb-; syn-; tauto-.

【同源单词】ambulatory automatism, autacoid, autacoidal, autaesthesy, autagonistophilia, autantonym

词根词缀:toxico-, toxic-, toxi-, tox-, toxin-, -toxically, -toxaemia, -toxemia, -toxaemic, -toxemic, -toxical, -toxy, -toxis, -toxicosis, -toxism, -toxia, -toxin, -toxicity

【来源及含义】Greek: poison

【相关词根词缀】 A cross reference of another word family that is related directly, or indirectly, with: "poison": veno-; viru-.

【同源单词】abstemious, acarotoxic, acetyldigitoxin, actinotoxemia, actinotoxin, adrenotoxin

词根词缀:xeno-, xen-, -xenic, -xenism, -xenist, -xenous, -xeny

【来源及含义】Greek: foreign, foreigner; alien; different; extraneous; strange, stranger; and by extension, guest

【相关描述】The "x" in xeno- is pronounced "z"; "zeno". Greeks are said to have considered any stranger a "guest" and modern Greek includes xenodocheion a "guest house" or "house for guests" or its modern version of "hotel".

The etymological meaning usually denotes some aspect of a relationship involving guests or visitors of some kind.

【相关词根词缀】 Related "foreign, strange" word families: allotrio-; barbar-.

【同源单词】alloxeny, autoxenous, axenic, axenous, axeny, dixenic