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Word Roots are a Part of History. "Histories Make Men Wise" -- Bacon.

英语词根学习

brevity
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix



brevity
the quality of being brief
短暂, 简短, 简洁
brevity 的切分如下:
brevity = brev- (short 短) + -ity (quality 性质);
brevity = the quality of being brief 短;简短
现在我来再次切分一下该词试试
该词的重要词根如下:
-ity
brev-

Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
Repetition is the key to learning. Now please try to dissect the word into the roots that you know yourself in the box below:
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