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单词 alate
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alateadj.n.

Brit. /ˈeɪleɪt/, U.S. /ˈeɪˌleɪt/
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ālātus.
Etymology: < classical Latin ālātus winged < āla wing (see ala n.1) + -ātus -ate suffix2. Compare alated adj.
A. adj.
Winged; having wings, or side appendages that are likened to wings. Cf. alated adj. Now chiefly Entomology.
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the world > plants > part of plant > part defined by form or function > [adjective] > wing-like or with winged parts
alated1653
alate1661
winged1776
apterous1830
tripterous1866
the world > space > shape > other specific shapes > [adjective] > like a wing
alary1658
aliform1698
alate1743
alar1791
bats-wing1838
alated1879
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > body and limbs > [adjective] > relating to limbs > relating to wings or fins > having wings or fins
finned1340
wingedc1405
wingy1596
alated1753
pinnated1776
alate1876
pinnate1890
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. A8 Serpents which are..alate, as the winged dragon.
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 118 Alate seed-vessels; or Keys.
1743 W. Stukeley Abury 62 This sacred figure of the alate and serpentiferous circle.
1763 W. Stukeley Palæographia Sacra 73 Nainby—Lincolnshire—from an alate temple there.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 76 Sometimes the stalk-like petiole is winged (alate), a narrow plate of the blade structure running down its margins.
1876 G. B. Buckton Monogr. Brit. Aphides I. 86 The alate females are never so plentiful as the apterous.
1918 Trans. Amer. Entomol. Soc. 44 2 The sexupara are alate, at least in all collections seen by the writer.
c1962 R. A. Heinlein in R. A. Heinlein & V. Heinlein Grumbles from Grave (1990) 258 Before I woke Poddy I took care of that alate pseudo-simian, that ‘fairy’. Vicious little beast.
1977 O. W. Richards & R. G. Davies Imms's Gen. Textbk. Entomol. (ed. 10) II. 620 The alate imagines in a [termite] colony normally all leave when swarming occurs.
2009 B. Hölldobler & E. O. Wilson Superorganism vi. 241 Alate queens and males are also led by tandem running.
B. n.
Entomology. An alate insect; esp. a winged fertile caste of a social insect; a winged aphid; (cf. alata n.).
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1915 Proc. Entomol. Soc. Washington 17 46 We usually transferred the ‘potential’ alates to new plants, in the pupal stage.
1934 C. A. Kofoid Termites i. 8 The alates become functional reproductives only after they leave the parent colony and, in isolation, start a new one.
1968 Bull. Entomol. Res. 57 492 Tobacco plants..were examined over five-week periods for the presence of alates and newly deposited nymphs.
2006 J. T. Costa Other Insect Societies ix. 232 The emigrants join the family and eventually mature into alates.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

alateadv.

Brit. /əˈleɪt/, U.S. /əˈleɪt/
Forms: late Middle English 1600s a late, 1500s–1800s alate, 1600s–1700s a-late; English regional 1800s alatt (Yorkshire), 1800s alayat (Lancashire), 1800s– a-late (Worcestershire).
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: of (also †on, †upon) late at late n. Phrases 1.
Etymology: < of (also †on, †upon) late at late n. Phrases 1, with reduction of the first element (compare a prep.2).
Now rare (archaic and English regional in later use).
Of late, lately.
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the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adverb]
neweneOE
newlyeOE
unyoreeOE
noweOE
newOE
lateOE
yesterdaya1300
freshlya1387
of newa1393
anewa1425
newlingsa1425
latewardc1434
the other dayc1450
lately?c1475
erst1480
latewards1484
sith late1484
alatea1500
recently1509
even now1511
late-whiles1561
late ygo1579
formerly1590
just now1591
lastly1592
just1605
low1610
this moment1696
latewardly1721
shortsyne1768
sometime1779
latterly1821
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4635 (MED) This is..come to me a late.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 65v Of shame & of shenship shapyn vs alate.
1584 R. Greene Arbasto 50 Where chilling frost alate did nip, There flasheth now a fire.
1606 Wily Beguilde 38 Yare waxen very proude alate, you will not know your olde friends.
1670 S. Woodford Let. 10 Mar. in I. Walton Life R. Hooker 3 in Lives How art thou chang'd from what thou wert a late.
1701 F. Atterbury Let. to Clergyman in Country 2/2 A powerful Party hath been formed a-late.
1722 L. Welsted Epist. to Dr. Garth 4 Ev'n to the Gallic Ghosts their Conqueror show; Alate how dreaded! now no more their foe!
1842 E. B. Browning Poems (1878) 219 But the Harpies alate In the storm came, and swept off the maidens.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Alayat, of late, lately.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. App. 87 A-late, lately.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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