-osis
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- Condition; process; action:
后缀,表示“状态”;“过程”;“动作”:
osmosis.
潜移默化 - Diseased or abnormal condition:
后缀,表示“病变的或不正常的状态”:
neurosis.
神经机能病 - Increase; formation:
后缀,表示“增多”;“形成”:
leukocytosis.
白血球增多
语源
- Latin -ōsis
拉丁语 -ōsis - from Greek [n. suff]
源自 希腊语 [名词后缀]
-osis
suffix forming nouns
indicating a process or state
⇒
metamorphosis
indicating a diseased condition
⇒
Compare -iasis
tuberculosis
Compare -iasis
indicating the formation or development of something
⇒
fibrosis
Origin
from Greek, suffix used to form nouns from verbs with infinitives in -oein or -oun-osis
Word Origin
1
a suffix occurring in nouns that denote actions, conditions, or states (hypnosis; leukocytosis; osmosis), especially disorders or abnormal states (chlorosis; neurofibromatosis; tuberculosis).
Compare -otic.
Origin
on the model of Greek borrowings ending in Greek -ōsis, as sklērōsis sclerosis, derived orig. from verbs ending in the formative -o- (-ō- in noun derivatives), with the suffix -sis -sis
Related Words
- -ota
- -otic
- acanthocytosis
- acidosis
- actinobacillosis
- actinomycosis
-osis(plural -oses)
a noun suffix denoting action, process, state, condition, etc., as in metamorphosis, and in many pathological terms, as tuberculosis.
[Greek, suffix forming nouns from verbs with infinitive in -oein, -oun]-osis
noun suffix
(plural -oses or -osises)
a. action : process : condition
hypnosis
b. abnormal or diseased condition
leukosis
2. increase : formation
leukocytosis
noun suffix
(plural -oses or -osises)
ETYMOLOGY New Latin, from Greek -ōsis, from -ō- (stem of causative verbs in -oun) + -sis
1.a. action : process : condition
hypnosis
b. abnormal or diseased condition
leukosis
2. increase : formation
leukocytosis
-osis
suffix
(pl. -oses /-siːz/)
- denoting a process or condition表示“过程”, “状态”:
-
metamorphosis.
- ■ denoting a pathological state表示“病变状态”:
-
neurosis
thrombosis
词源
via Latin from Greek -ōsis, verbal noun ending.
-osis
word-forming element expressing state or condition, in medical terminology denoting "a state of disease," from Latin -osis and directly from Greek -osis, formed from the aorist of verbs ending in -o. It corresponds to Latin -atio.
ORIGIN: Latin , or Greek -ōsis .
-osis
plural -oses. suffix.
act or process of _____, or state or condition of _____, as in osmosis, cyanosis.
an abnormal condition, as in mononucleosis, neurosis, trichinosis, thrombosis.
[< Latin -osis < Greek -ōsis]
-o·sis
\ˈōsə̇s\ noun suffix
(plural -o·ses \ˈōˌsēz\ ; or -o·sis·es)
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin, from Greek -ōsis, from -ō- (medial vowel characteristic of derivatives of certain verbs) + -sis
1.
a. : action : process : condition
< hypnosis >
b. : abnormal or diseased condition
< leukosis >
2. : increase : formation
< leukocytosis >
3. : arrangement
< pterylosis >
4.[New Latin, from Latin] : disease caused by a (specified) fungus
< chytridiosis >
1.
a.
< hypnosis >
b.
< leukosis >
2.
< leukocytosis >
3.
< pterylosis >
4.
< chytridiosis >
-osis
Suffix
(plural -oses)
- pathology functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
- process, action
- formation, increase
Etymology
From Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).[1]
Usage notes
Corresponding adjectives are formed using -otic.
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -osis
See also
References
- ^ http://www.empire.net/~merlin/greek.html