root word

基本解释

He reached back into Latin and Greek and it seems that the root word for gnome means “earth-dwelling.”
他用拉丁文和希腊文造这词。
It’s just that deceased and predecessor, as well as the word succeed all evolved out of the same earlier root word.
这只是因为deceased(已故的)和predecessor（前任），以及单词succeed（继任）都是由同一个早期的词根词演变而来。
A quick look in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary provides four different definitions of virtualization’s root word, virtual.
快速浏览 Merriam-Webster 在线词典中虚拟化词根 virtual 的 4 个不同定义。

The word "Antarctica" comes from a Greek root meaning "opposite to the north."
And we're reminded of the etymological root of our modern English word career.
而后我们就会想起,现代英语文字语源学的根源。
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Now, the Hebrew word "holy" has a root meaning of separate. Separate.
现在，这个希伯来词语“神圣“，根源的意思是独立。
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Each of these distinctions is expressed simply as a conjugation of the root word for vision.
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