词根:-vari-
【词根含义】:变化
【词根来源】:来源于拉丁语形容词vari.us, vari.a, vari.um(多样化的,可变的)。
【同源单词】:invariable, invariably, variable, variation, varied
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:vari-
【来源及含义】Latin: different, diversity, change, changing
【相关描述】Believed by some etymologists to be from varus, "bent, knock-kneed; to bend, to turn, to twist".
【相关词根词缀】 Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; alter-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; poikilo-; reciproc-.
【同源单词】divaricate, electrically variable coil, electrophoretic variants, geomagnetic secular variation, geomagnetic variation, idiovariation