词根：-hum-

【词根含义】：土,土地;人类;卑下;湿

【词根来源】：拉丁语中名词hum.us, hum.i, f(土地)派生了human.us(人类的)和humilis(卑下的);拉丁语中动词hum.ere(潮湿)派生了形容词humid.us(潮湿的)和名词humor(液体,潮湿)。

【同源单词】：exhumation, exhume, human, humane, humanism

词根词缀：humid-, humor-

【来源及含义】Latin: moist, moisture, wet, damp

【相关描述】The correct spelling of the Latin origins is umor, umere, umidus. The spelling with the initial h is a result of folk (false) etymology, which once associated these words with Latin humus, "earth".

【相关词根词缀】Related "jest; joke; wit; humor; funny" word units: faceti-; farc-; jocu-; lud-; satir-.

【同源单词】dehumidify, humid, humidification, humidifier, humidify, humidistat

词根词缀：-ous, -ious, -eous

【来源及含义】Latin: full of or having the qualities of; in chemistry, a suffix denoting that the element indicated by the name bearing it, has a valence lower than that denoted by the termination -ic; as, nitrous, sulphurous, etc., as contrasted with nitric, sulphuric, etc.

【相关描述】Only a small number of the hundreds of examples are presented because there are just too many to include at this time.

【同源单词】abdominous, abiogenous, ablepharous, abstemious, acanthaceous, acanthocephalous