-genous
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Producing; generating:
产生的；发生的：
hematogenous.
成血的 - Produced by or in a specified manner:
…生的：由或在一种具体的方式下产生的：
hypogenous.
地下生的
语源
- -gen
-gen - -ous
-ous
-genous
combining form in adjective
yielding or generating
⇒
androgenous
⇒
erogenous
generated by or issuing from
⇒
endogenous
Origin
from -gen + -ous-genous
Word Origin
1
a suffix of adjectives corresponding to nouns with stems in -gen: erogenous.
Origin
-gen + -ous
Related Words
- -genic
- amphigenous
- androgenous
- ascogenous
- cnidogenous
- ectogenous
-genousan adjective suffix derived from nouns ending in -gen and -geny, as hydrogenous, fibrinogenous.
[-gen + -ous]-genous
adjective combining form
erogenous
2. having (such) an origin
terrigenous
adjective combining form
ETYMOLOGY -gen + -ous
1. producing : yieldingerogenous
2. having (such) an origin
terrigenous
-genous
combining form
1.
- producing; inducing表示“产生的”, “引起的”：
-
erogenous.
2.
- originating in表示“由…产生（或引起）的”：
-
endogenous.
词源
from -GEN + -OUS .
-genous
word-forming element meaning "generating, producing, yielding;" see -gen + -ous. In modern formations, making adjectives corresponding to words in -gen. In some older words, from Lat Latin -genus, from Latin -gena "born" (for example indigenous).
ORIGIN: from -gen -ous
-ge·nous
\jənəs\ adjective combining form
Etymology: -gen + -ous
1. : producing : yielding
< alkaligenous >
2. : produced by : arising or originating in
< neurogenous >
< endogenous >
1.
< alkaligenous >
2.
< neurogenous >
< endogenous >