单词 | paedo- |
释义 | paedo-pedo-comb. form Forming nouns with the sense ‘of a child or children’ (occasionally spec. ‘of a boy or boys’); (Biology) forming nouns and corresponding adjectives with the sense ‘of or relating to immature or juvenile forms of organisms’, as paedogenesis, paedomorphosis. paedarchy n. Brit. /ˈpiːdɑːki/ , U.S. /ˈpɛˌdɑrki/ , /ˈpiˌdɑrki/ [ < paedo- comb. form + -archy comb. form] rule or government by a child or children.ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of child or children paedocracy1647 paedarchy1831 1831 Ann. Reg. 1830 Hist. Europe 245/2 The government was called the pædarchy (or the regime of children). 1927 H. W. Odum Man's Quest for Social Guidance xv. 248 Neither matriarchy nor patriarchy, nor yet paidarchy, as now seems to be the case, but democracy, should be the portion of the family. 1992 Daily Tel. 22 Feb. (Weekend) 22/2 The household is virtually a paedarchy already, of course, because Kidlings quite understandably regard themselves as VIPs. paedocracy n. Brit. /piːˈdɒkrəsi/ , U.S. /pəˈdɑkrəsi/ , /piˈdɑkrəsi/ [ < paedo- comb. form + -cracy comb. form] = paedarchy n.ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule of any class or persons > [noun] > of child or children paedocracy1647 paedarchy1831 1647 J. Noyes Temple Measured 34 Some are..unseasonable, ignorant, youthful. This is a Pedocracy as well as a Democracy. 1898 tr. M. Busch Bismarck III. 144 Bucher then complained of the ‘gross ineptitude’ displayed by Gerhard Rohlfs in his mission to Zanzibar. ‘He got it’, he said, ‘through the “paidocracy”, as Busch calls it,—through the influence of the Chancellor's sons upon their father.’ 2000 Australian (Nexis) 9 Aug. b4 Down with Paedocracy. Can anyone explain to me why it is that the combining of the word young with that of the word writer should be the cause of such great excitement? ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > paediatrics paedonosology1835 paediatrics1857 paediatry1857 1835 M. Ryan Man. Midwifery p. ix The Fourth Chapter is designated Paidonosology, or diseases of infants and children. 1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Pædonosologia, term for a description or consideration of the diseases of children: pedonosology. paedonym n. Brit. /ˈpiːdənɪm/ , U.S. /ˈpɛdn̩ɪm/ , /ˈpidn̩ɪm/ [ < paedo- comb. form + -onym comb. form; compare earlier paedonymic n., paedonymy n.] rare = paedonymic n.ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] > name derived from a child filionymic1870 paedonymic1883 paedonym1987 1987 A. Nickon & E. F. Silversmith Org. Chem.: Name Game x. 137 James Moore and Stanley Eng..isolated five new substances from Jamaica Dogwood and gave one of them the paedonym ‘lisetin’, after Professor Moore's daughter, Lise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1647 |
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