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Learning English Roots

endure
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix



endure
to hold up under pain, fatigue, etc.; stand; bear; undergo; to put up with; tolerate
忍耐, 容忍; vi. 持久, 持续
Dissection of endure
endure = en- (in) + dur (hard) + -e (-e does not have a meaning. For its origin and original meaning, please click here);
endure = to bear pain, fatigue etc.;
to put up with
Now Repeat my Dissection
Important roots for this word:
en-
dur

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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