英语词源词典，G.doc

-gamous comb. form meaning "marrying," from Gk. gamos "marriage" (see gamete) + -ous. -gamy comb. form meaning "marriage, fertilization," from Gk. -gamia, from gamos "marriage" (see gamete). -gate suffix attached to anything to indicate "scandal involving," 1973, abstracted from Watergate, the Washington, D.C., building complex, home of the National Headquarters of the Democratic Party when it was burglarized June 17, 1972, by operatives later found to be working for the staff and re-election campaign of U.S. President Richard Nixon. -gen comb. form technically meaning "something produced," but mainly, in modern use, "thing that produces or causes," from Fr. -gène (18c.), from Gk. -genes "born of, produced by," related to genos "birth" (see genus). -genic comb. form meaning "producing;" see -gen + -ic. -genous comb. form meaning "generating, producing, yielding;" see -gen + -ous. -geny comb. form meaning "genesis, origin, production," from Fr. -génie, from Gk. -geneia, from genes "born, produced" (see genus). -gram suffix from telegram (1857), first abstracted 1979 (in Gorillagram, a proprietary name in U.S.), and put to wide use in forming new words, such as stripagram (1981). The construction violates Greek grammar, as an adverb could not properly form part of a compound noun. -graphy comb. form meaning “process of writing or recording” or “a writing, recording, or description,” from Fr. or Ger. -graphie, from Gk. -graphia "description of," from graphein “write, express by written characters," earlier "to draw, represent by lines drawn,” originally "to scrape, scratch" (on clay tablets with a stylus), from PIE base *gerbh- "to scratch, carve" (see carve). In modern use, especially in forming names of descriptive sciences. G for history of the letter's development, see C. As a movie rating in the U.S., 1966, standing for general. Standing for gravity in physics since 1785. g spot also g-spot, 1981, short for Gr?fenberg spot, named for German gy