词根词缀:-ability
【来源及含义】Latin: suffix; expressing ability, capacity, fitness, or "that which may be easily handled or managed"
【相关描述】Just a few examples out of hundreds of words presented as the noun forms of -able; forming nouns of quality from, or corresponding to, adjectives in -able; the quality in an agent that makes an action possible. The suffix -ible has related meanings.
【同源单词】absolute permeability, absorbability, accountability, achievability, acquirability, adaptability
词根词缀:-able
【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; expressing capacity, fitness to do that which can be handled or managed, suitable skills to accomplish something; capable of being done, something which can be finished, etc.
【相关描述】A suffix that forms adjectives. The suffix -ible has related meanings; expressing ability, capacity, fitness; capable of, fit for, able to be done, can be done, inclined to, tending to, given to.
This list is only a small sample of the thousands of -able words that exist in English.
【同源单词】abdicable, -able, abolishable, abominable, abradable, acceptable
词根词缀:bio-, bi-, -bia, -bial, -bian, -bion, -biont, -bius, -biosis, -bium, -biotic, -biotical
【来源及含义】Greek: life; living, live, alive
【相关描述】Don’t confuse this element with another bi- which means "two".
【相关词根词缀】 Related life, live-word units: anima-; -cole; vita-; viva-.
【同源单词】abiatrophy, abiocoen, abiogenesis, abiogenetic, abiogenetically, abiogenic
词根词缀:grad-, -grade, -gred, -gree, -gress
【来源及含义】Latin: walk, step, take steps, move around; walking or stepping
【同源单词】ad eundem gradum, aggradation, aggression, aggressive, aggressively, aggressiveness