en-的中文意思、音标与词形变化

pref. 放进, 使处于...境地, 在里面, 用...包住

A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-. A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-.