词根：-tain-, -ten-, -tin-

【词根含义】：握,持有

【词根来源】：来源于拉丁语动词teneo, tenere, tenui, tentus(握,持有)。

【同源单词】：abstain, attain, attainable, attainment, contain

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：-able

【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; expressing capacity, fitness to do that which can be handled or managed, suitable skills to accomplish something; capable of being done, something which can be finished, etc.

【相关描述】A suffix that forms adjectives. The suffix -ible has related meanings; expressing ability, capacity, fitness; capable of, fit for, able to be done, can be done, inclined to, tending to, given to.

This list is only a small sample of the thousands of -able words that exist in English.

【同源单词】abdicable, -able, abolishable, abominable, abradable, acceptable

词根词缀：ten-, tent-, tin-, -tain, -tainment, -tenance, -tinence

【来源及含义】Latin: hold, grasp, have

【同源单词】abstain, abstain, abstainer, abstaining, abstemious, abstention

词根词缀：tend-, tendo-, ten-, teno-, tenot-, tenonto-, tens-, tent-, -tend, -tension, -tent, -tense, -tensive, -tentious

【来源及含义】Greek > Latin: to move in a certain direction; to stretch, to hold out; tension; as well as tendon, sinew

【同源单词】Achilles tendon, achillotenotomy, attend, attendance, attendance, attendant