-trophic
suff.（后缀）
语源
suff.（后缀）
- Of, relating to, or characterized by a specified kind of nutrition:
表示“营养的”：某种特定营养的，与某种特定营养有关的，以某种特定营养为特点的：
polytrophic.
营养过多的 - Acting on something specified:
表示“作用于某种特定东西”：
gonadotrophic.
促性腺的
语源
- From trophic
源自 trophic
-trophic
Word Origin
1
a combining form with the meanings “having nutritional habits or requirements” of the kind specified by the initial element (autotrophic), “affecting the activity of, maintaining” that specified (gonadotrophic) (in this sense often interchangeable with -tropic,); also forming adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -troph, or -trophy, (hypertrophic).
Origin
see trophic
Related Words
- -troph
- -trophy
- amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- ectotrophic
- endotrophic
- heterotrophic
-trophic
adjective combining form
a. of, relating to, or characterized by (such) nutrition
ectotrophic
b. requiring or utilizing (such) a kind of nutrition
heterotrophic
2. -tropic 2
gonadotrophic
adjective combining form
ETYMOLOGY New Latin -trophia -trophy
1.a. of, relating to, or characterized by (such) nutrition
ectotrophic
b. requiring or utilizing (such) a kind of nutrition
heterotrophic
2. -tropic 2
gonadotrophic
-trophic
combining form
1.
- relating to nutrition表示“与营养有关的”：
-
oligotrophic.
2.
- relating to maintenance or regulation of a bodily organ or function, especially by a hormone表示“（尤指由激素促成的）器官或功能的维护与调节”：
-
gonadotrophic.
派生词
-trophism combining form
in corresponding nouns
-trophy combining form
in corresponding nouns
词源
from Greek trophikos, from trophē 'nourishment'.
1943 Endocrinology XXXIII. 407 The use of -tropic as in gonadotropic..reverses and confuses a clear, practical pre-established usage in the broad field of biology... -Trophic, even if not perfectly apt, is close enough in meaning and is free from confusion.
1950 Lancet 2 Dec. 708/2 It is becoming current practice to speak of the action of a hormone in controlling an endocrine gland as trophic ( e.g. , thyrotrophic hormone..)... This is surely a misuse of words, from a confusion between trophic action..which is concerned with nutrition,..and tropism.., which connotes control... Is it too late to revert to thyrotropic..and the like?
1971 Ibid. 25 Sept. 701/2For good or ill, -trophic is all but universal , though I saw corticotropic recently in a new edition of a student's biochemistry book from the States. [ in the names of hormones]
ORIGIN: from trophic
-troph·ic
\.|träfik, -rōf-, -fēk, sometimes .trə(ˌ)fik\ adjective combining form
also -tro·phous\.trəfəs\
Etymology: New Latin -trophia -trophy + English -ic or -ous
1.
a. also -trophous : of or relating to a (specified) type of nutrition
< hypertrophic >
< hypertrophous >
b. : having a (specified) nutritional requirement
< monotrophic >
2. : -tropic 1,2
< glycotrophic >
< lipotrophic >
also -tro·phous
1.
a. also -trophous
< hypertrophic >
< hypertrophous >
b.
< monotrophic >
2.
< glycotrophic >
< lipotrophic >
-trophic
Suffix
- Used to form adjectives corresponding to nouns ending in -trophy
Etymology
From Ancient Greek τροφικός (trophikós, “pertaining to food or nourishment”), from τροφή (trophḗ, “food”). Surface analysis is -trophy + -ic.
Usage notes
Frequently confused with -tropic (“growth, development; nutrition”), which is instead from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”).[1] Compare trophic hormone (effects growth) and tropic hormone (drives other glands) and tropho-/tropo-.
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -trophic
Related terms
References
- ^ “Trophic vs. Tropic”, Werner Steinberg, JAMA, May 3, 1952, 149(1), p. 82, doi:10.1001/jama.1952.02930180084027.