词根词缀：-ium

【来源及含义】Greek: a suffix; scientific names; names of metallic elements; a part, lining, or enveloping tissue, region; little; representing a diminutive force

【相关描述】A suffix found on nouns borrowed from Latin; especially, derivatives of verbs (odium; tedium; colloquium; delirium); deverbal compounds with the initial element denoting the object of the verb (nasturtium); other types of compounds (equilibrium; millennium); and derivatives of personal nouns, often denoting the associated status or office (collegium; consortium; magisterium).

This ending of -ium also occurs in scientific terms on a Latin model; such as, in names of metallic elements (barium; titanium) and as a Latinization of Greek -ion (pericardium).

【同源单词】acute delirium, agrobacterium, aigialium, alluvium, andrium, anthium

词根词缀：loqu-, -loquence, -loquent, -loquently, -loquy, -iloquent, -iloquently

【来源及含义】Latin: talk, speak, say

【相关描述】This loqu unit is directly related to the "talk, speak, say, word, speech" locu- family unit.

【相关词根词缀】Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.

【同源单词】Adversus solem ne loquitor, alalieniloquent, alloquy, altiloquent, ambiloquent, ambiloquy