-pterouscomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. orthopterous adj.

Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek -πτερος , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < ancient Greek -πτερος, combining form (in e.g. ϕοινικόπτερος red-feathered: see phoenicopter n.) of πτερόν wing (see ptero- comb. form) + -ous suffix.Combined with first elements ultimately of Greek origin. Earliest attested in the 18th cent. in words modelled on ancient Greek or Hellenistic Greek compounds, or on post-classical Latin or scientific Latin words in -pterus , -ptera , as apterous adj., dipterous adj. Formations within English are found from the 19th cent. In connection with the Latin names of insect orders in -ptera , words in -pterous have been mostly displaced in technical use by words in -pteran (as dipteran adj.).

Forming adjectives in the sense ‘having wings or winglike projections of the type or number specified by the first element’.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	-pterous
释义	-pterouscomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. orthopterous adj. Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek -πτερος , -ous suffix. Etymology: < ancient Greek -πτερος, combining form (in e.g. ϕοινικόπτερος red-feathered: see phoenicopter n.) of πτερόν wing (see ptero- comb. form) + -ous suffix.Combined with first elements ultimately of Greek origin. Earliest attested in the 18th cent. in words modelled on ancient Greek or Hellenistic Greek compounds, or on post-classical Latin or scientific Latin words in -pterus , -ptera , as apterous adj., dipterous adj. Formations within English are found from the 19th cent. In connection with the Latin names of insect orders in -ptera , words in -pterous have been mostly displaced in technical use by words in -pteran (as dipteran adj.). Forming adjectives in the sense ‘having wings or winglike projections of the type or number specified by the first element’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < comb. form
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