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单词 -cene
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-cenecomb. form

Primary stress is retained by the usual stressed syllable of the preceding element and vowels may be reduced accordingly.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek καινός.
Etymology: < ancient Greek καινός new, recent, probably < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit kanyā young girl, kaniṣṭha youngest, Avestan kainyan- young girl.Earliest in W. Whewell's coinages Acene n.1, Eocene adj., Miocene adj., Pliocene adj.: see quot. 1831 at Miocene adj.
Geology.
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Forming adjectives designating epochs and strata of the Tertiary and Quaternary periods, and nouns denoting such epochs, as Miocene adj. and n., Pliocene adj. and n., etc.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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