| 释义 |
segolate, segholate, a. and n. Heb. Gram.|ˈsɛgələt|
[c gray][a. mod.L. seg(h)olātus, f. Heb. s⊇gōl, the name of the vowel-point ֒ and of the sound (ɛ[/c]) which it represents.
The name s⊇gōl means lit. ‘bunch of grapes’, alluding to the shape of the character.]
a. adj. Originally, of a disyllabic noun: Having the vowel s⊇gōl in both syllables. Now commonly in extended sense, as the distinctive epithet of the class of disyllabic nouns having an unaccented short vowel (normally s⊇gōl) in the last syllable.
b. n. A segolate noun.
1831M. Stuart Gram. Hebr. §100. 46 All Segholate forms, i.e. those which have a furtive vowel in their final syllable. Ibid. §119. 56 Aleph penult, in words that would regularly be Segholates. 1837G. Phillips Syriac Gram. 25 One of the old forms of segolate nouns in Hebrew. 1884Cheyne Isaiah I. 291 The word is a so-called ‘Segolate’ in form. |