词根：-fa-, -phe-, -pha-, -fe-

【词根含义】：说

【词根来源】：-pha-和-phe-来源于希腊语,而-fa-和-fe-来源于拉丁语。由-fa-和-fe-衍生的词根还有: ① -fab- 说,寓言,传说 (来源于拉丁语fabula寓言,传说); ② -fam- 名声,名誉 (来源于拉丁语fama流言,名誉 ← 说的人多了,就有名声了); ③ -fant- 说 (来源于拉丁语infans, infantis, m婴儿 ← 婴儿是不能说话的,所以带有否定前缀in-); ④ -fat- 命运 (来源于拉丁语fatum神的话语 → 神说的是命中注定的); ⑤ -fess- 表白 (来源于拉丁语动词fateor, fateri, fassus, sum表白,承认)。

【同源单词】：defamatory, defame, fable, fabulist, fabulous

词根：-fant-

【词根含义】：说

【词根来源】：来源于拉丁语infans, infantis, m婴儿 ← 婴儿是不能说话的,所以带有否定前缀in-。由-fa-和-fe-衍生出的词根。

【同源单词】：infant, infantry

前缀：il-, in-, ir-, im-

【词根含义】：不,无,非;入,向内

【词根来源】：(il-用于l前;im-用于b, m, p前;ir-用于r前;in-用于其它情况)   来源于拉丁语in。

【同源单词】：illegal, illegality, illegitimate, illiterate, illogical

词根词缀：fa-, fam-, fan-, fant-, fat-, -fess; fab-, fabul-

【来源及含义】Latin: fari-, "to say, to talk"; telling, speak, say, spoken about; acknowledge

【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-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-. Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "divination, diviner; seer, soothsayer, prophecy, prophesy, prophet": augur-; auspic-; Fates in action; futur-; -mancy; omen; -phemia; sorc-, sorcery; vati-.

【同源单词】affability, affable, affableness, affably, confabulate, confabulation