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1、-abilitysuffixexpressingabilityorcapacity,fromL.-abilitas,formingnounsfromadjs.endingin-abilis(see-able).Notetymologicallyrelatedtoability,thoughpopularlyconnectedwithit.-ablesuffixexpressingability,capacity,fitness,fromL.-ibilis,-abilis,formingadjectivesfromve
2、rbs,fromPIE*-tro-,asuffixusedtoformnounsofinstrument.InL.,infinitivesin-aretook-abilis,others-ibilis;inEng.,-ableisusedfornativewords,-ibleforwordsofobviousL.origin.TheLatinsuffixisnotetymologicallyconnectedwithable,butitlonghasbeenpopularlyassociatedwithit,and
3、thishascontributedtoitssurvivalasalivingsuffix.Itisrelatedtothesecondsyllableofrudderandsaddle.-aceasuffixdenotingordersandclassesinzoology,fromL.-acea,neut.pl.of-aceus"belongingto,ofthenatureof"(enlargedfromadj.suffix-ax,gen.-acis);neut.pl.becauseofapresumedan
4、imalia,aneuterpluralnoun.Thus,crustacea"shellfish"are*crustaceaanimalia"crustyanimals."Inbotany,thesuffixis-aceae,fromthefem.pl.of-aceus,withreferencetoL.plantae,whichisafem.plural.-adsuffixdenotingcollectivenumerals(cf.Olympiad),fromGk.-as(gen.-ados),asuffixfo
5、rmingfem.nouns;alsousedinfem.patronymics(Dryad,Naiad,also,inplural,Pleiades,Hyades).-adoincommando,desperado,tornado,,andotherwordsofSp.andPort.origin,"personorgroupparticipatinginanaction,"fromL.-atus,pp.suffixofverbsofthefirstconjugation(cf.-ade).-agesuffixfo
6、rmingnounsofact,process,function,condition,fromO.Fr./Fr.-age,fromL.L.-aticum"belongingto,relatedto,"originallyneut.adj.suffix,fromL.-atus,pp.suffixofverbsofthefirstconjugation.-aholicabstractedfromalcoholicfirstinsugarholic(1965),laterinworkaholic(1968),golfaho
7、lic(1971),chocoholic(1976),andshopaholic(1984).-algiasuffixdenoting"pain,"fromGk.algos"pain,"algein"tofeelpain,"ofunknownorigin.Relatedtoalegein"tocareabout,"originally"tofeelpain."-archysuffixmeaning"rule,"fromL.-archia,fromGk.-arkhia,fromarkhos"leader,chief,r
8、uler,"fromarkhe"beginning,origin,firstplace"(seearchon).-astersuffixexpressingincompleteresemblance(e.g.poetaster),usuallydim.anddeprecatory,fromL.,fromGk.-aster,suffixorigi
