词根:mon(min) = to warn, to advise, to remind
来自拉丁语的mon意为to warn,to advise,to remind。变形为min。
(*拉丁文monere(=to advise,to remind)过去分词为monitus)——英文字根字典)
同源词:
1. admonish (向某人提出忠告 ad(=to) + mon(=warn,advise,remind))
vt.训诫,告诫;警告;劝告
admonition n.训诫;警告
admonitory adj.告诫的;警告的
The teacher admonished the children not to ridicule the crippled girl.老师告诫孩子们不要嘲笑那个跛脚的女孩子。
2. premonition(事先警告、使想起pre(=before) + mon(=warn,advise,remind))
n.预感,前兆;预告
premonitory adj.预告的;前兆的
I had a premonition that we were going to have an earthquake.我预感到了我们会遭遇地震。
3. reminisce(返回记忆re(=back) +min<mon(=remind,remember,warn))
vi.追忆,回想
reminiscence n.追忆,回想
reminiscent adj.追忆的,回想的
We had such fun at the 20th high school reunion,reminiscing about the old days.在高中同学毕业20周年聚会上,我们沉浸在对往昔的回忆中,过得非常愉快。
4. monitor
n.(学校的)班长;国外电台监听员;监考员;告诫者,告诫物;监视器
v.监控;监测;监视 *mon(=warn,advise)
monition n.警告;告诫(忠告;劝告)
monitorship n.班长的职务、地位、任期等;监督《-ship 表示性质、作用等的抽象名词后缀》
5. monument
n.纪念碑;纪念塔;纪念馆;不朽的作品;历史遗迹 *mon(=remind)
Washington Monument 华盛顿纪念碑
the Monument (1666年的)伦敦大火纪念塔
ancient monuments 古迹
6. monumental
adj. 纪念的;(著作等)不朽的;极端的;非常的 *mon(=remind)
monumental work不朽的作品
monumental ignorance 极度的无知
7. summon
v.召唤;传唤;召集 *sum<sub(=under),mon(=warn)
issue a summons 发传票
词根词缀:pero-
【来源及含义】Greek: maimed, crippled; deformed, malformed
【同源单词】perobrachius, perocephalus, perocephaly, perochirus, perodactylus, perodactyly
词根词缀:syphilo-, syphil-, syphili-, syphi-
【来源及含义】Latin: Syphil[us], the eponymous main character of Girolamo Fracastoro's poem "Syphilus sive Morbus Gallicus" [Syphilus, or the French Disease], published at Verona, Italy [1530]
【相关描述】Syphilis is a venereal disease (of which Fracastoro's hero Syphilus, was a victim) and is caused by the microorganism Treponema pallidum.
Syphilus was a shepard whose name literally means a "friend of swine". Perhaps it was derived from Greek syn-, "together", plus philein "to love", or from Greek siphlos, "crippled, maimed". No one seems to know for certain.
【同源单词】antisyphilitic, dermosyphilopathy, neurosyphilis, syphilide, syphilionthus, syphiliphobia