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