词根词缀:cast-

【来源及含义】Latin: pure, cut off, to cut off from, separated

【相关描述】A reference to "a race of men" is from Latin casto, "chaste" from castus, "pure, cut off, separated"; past participle of carere, "to be cut off from" (and related to castrate and -cest-).

【相关词根词缀】;Related cutting-word units: ;castrat-,-cise, -cide,-ectomy,mutil-,put-,sec-, seg-,temno-,-tomy,trunc-.

【同源单词】caste, castigate, castigation, castigatory, chaste, chastely