词根：-pati-, -path-, -pass-

【词根含义】：痛苦,激情

【词根来源】：-pati-/-pass-来源于拉丁语动词patior, pati, passus, sum(忍受); -path-来源于希腊语path.os(忍受,疾病) → 爱由怜生,爱是痛苦的。

【同源单词】：compatibility, compatible, impatient, incompatible, patience

前缀：sy-, syn-, sym-, syl-

【词根含义】：共同,同时

【词根来源】：(sy-用于s, z之前;syl-用于l之前;sym-用于b, p, m之前;syn-用于其它)  来源于拉丁语syn-,希腊语syn或sun-(共同)。

【同源单词】：photosynthesis, synchronise, synchronize, synthesis, synthetic

词根词缀：path-, patho-, -path-, -pathia, -pathic, -pathology, -pathetic, -pathize, -pathy

【来源及含义】Greek: feeling, sensation, perception; suffering, disease, or disorder; a system of treating diseases

【相关描述】In medicine, some of these elements usually mean "someone who suffers from a disease of, or one who treats a disease"; so, they should not be confused with the words that mean "feeling" which are also shown on these pages even though both meanings come from the same Greek element.

【相关词根词缀】 Related-word units meaning feeling: aesth-; senso-; pass-.

【同源单词】acroleukopathy, acropathology, acropathy, adenopathy, adrenalopathy, adrenopathy

词根词缀：syn-, sy-, sym-, syl-, sys-

【来源及含义】Greek: with, together with; also by extension: united; same, similar; at the same time

【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units dealing with "equal, identical, same, similar": auto-; emul-; equ-, equi-; homeo-; homo-; iso-; pari-; peer; rhomb-; tauto-.

【同源单词】acrocephalopolysyndactyly, acrocephalosyndactylia, acrocephalosyndactyly, acrosyndesis, allosynapsis, antagonistic symbiosis