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:patent-
【来源及含义】Latin: to be open, lying open, to lie open
【同源单词】patent, patentability, patentable, patentee, patently, patentor