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词根:hap = luck 运气, 机会

  这个词根hap 来源于古代挪威语happ(=good luck)。


同源词:

1. hap  [运气总是偶然发生的→]
  n. 幸运;偶然发生之事

2. mishap  [mi- = mis = bad 坏  + hap 运气 → 发生不好的事 →]
  n.不幸;灾祸;恶运

3. happen  [happ = hap 机会  + -en 后缀 → 由于偶然机会而发生的 →]
  v. 发生;(后接不定式)恰好,碰巧

4. happening  [见上,-ing 名词后缀 →]
  n.事件

5. haphazard  [hap 机会 + -hazard = gam of dice 骰子游戏  → 像玩骰子游戏一样的机会 →]
  n.偶然
  adj.偶然的
  adv.偶然地

6. perhaps  [per- =through 凭借 + hap 运气 + -s 后缀  →凭借运气 →]
  adv.可能;或许

词根:hap = chance, 表示“机会, 运气”

perhaps ad. 也许,可能(per全部+haps→全是机会[决定]→也许)

happen v. 发生(hap+pen表动词→机会来了→发生)

happy a. 幸运的;幸福的(hap+py→有运气的→幸福的)

happihess n. 幸福(happy+ness)

mishap n. 不幸,灾祸(mis 坏+hap→坏运气→不幸)

hapless a. 运气不好的(hap+less无→无运气的)

haphazard a. 偶然的;无计划的(hap+hazard游戏→运气+游戏→偶然的)

词根词缀:amalga-

【来源及含义】Latin: Medieval Latin amalgama, perhaps from malagma, "poultice" or "plaster"

【同源单词】amalgam, amalgam retort, amalgam treatment, amalgamate, amalgamation, amalgamation pan

词根词缀:scroful-, scrofulo-

【来源及含义】Latin: breeding sow

【相关描述】In the extended sense, it pertains to scrofula, a tubercular swelling, especially of the lymphatic glands [so named, perhaps, because the swelling resembles the shape of a sow or a female hog]).

【同源单词】scrofula, scrofuloderma, scrofulous, scrofulous abscess

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

词根词缀:victim-

【来源及含义】Latin: victima, an animal or a human that is offered as a sacrifice to a god; perhaps a religiously consecrated creature

【同源单词】crime victim, victim, victim support, victimizable, victimization, victimize