| 释义 |
prefixture|priːˈfɪkstjʊə(r)|
Also præ-.
[f. prefix v. after fixture.]
1. The action of prefixing, esp. in grammar.
1824J. Winterbottom Two French Words 9 Warton speaks of the prefixture of the augment y. 1879J. A. H. Murray tr. Schiefner in Address to Philol. Soc. 41 In this language [Abchasian] the most interesting feature is the remarkable prefixture of the personal pronouns. For example..ab ‘father’ makes sab ‘my father’, uab ‘thy father’ (masc.), bab ‘thy father’ (fem.), yab ‘his father’, lab ‘her father’, shab ‘your father’, rab ‘their father’.
2. A word prefixed, esp. as a title or distinction; a prefix.
1821New Monthly Mag. II. 131 The ancient fiddle, with its cognomen, or monosyllabic praefixture, was, we fancy, a low instrument. 1833T. Hamilton Men & Mann. Amer. I. viii. 241 The members of the Federal Senate are addressed with the prefixture of Honourable. |