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:gram-, -gram-, -gram, -grammatic, -grammatical, -grammatically, -gramme, -grammic

【来源及含义】Greek: write, writing, something written, a written record, a recording; letters; words; later, a small weight, a unit of mass in the metric system

【相关描述】A unit of weight in the metric system from 1797 gramme, borrowing of French gramme, from Late Latin gramma, "small weight"; from Greek gramma, "small weight"; originally, "something written"; from the stem of graphein, "to draw, to write".

【相关词根词缀】Related "writing" word units: glypto-; graph-; scrib-, script-.

【同源单词】accelerogram, achillogram, acoustogram, acrogram, acronym, actinogram