-iansuffix

Primary stress is usually attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

1. Representing Latin -iānus, i.e. an original or connecting vowel -i-, with suffix -ānus: see -an suffix 1a, ‘of or belonging to’. Formed by adding -ānus to stems ending in -i, as Italia, Italiānus, Fabius, Fabiānus, Vergilius, Vergiliānus, Christus, Christiānus. Hence, in many English words adapted or formed from Latin, in which the suffix forms both adjectives and nouns, as antediluvian, barbarian, historian, equestrian, patrician, saturnian; and in modern formations from proper names, the number of which is without limit, as Addisonian, Arminian, Arnoldian, Bodleian, Cameronian, Gladstonian, Hoadleian, Hugonian, Johnsonian, Morrisonian, Ruskinian, Salisburyian, Shavian, Sheldonian, Taylorian, Tennysonian, Wardian, Wellsian, Wordsworthian; Aberdonian, Bathonian, Bostonian, Bristolian, Cantabrigian, Cornubian, Devonian, Galwegian, Glasgowegian, Johnian, Oxonian, Parisian, Salopian, Sierra Leonian. There are also sportive formations, as any-lengthian. See also -an suffix.

2. Mineralogy. [Abstracted from the adjectives magnesian, manganesian.] Used to form, from the (English or Latin) names of the elements, adjectives having the sense ‘having a (small) proportion of a constituent element replaced by (the element concerned)’ (see quot. 1930).

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1930 W. T. Schaller in Amer. Mineralogist 15 568 Can a uniform, clearly understandable scheme of nomenclature be adopted to express a minor and variable isomorphous replacement of an essential chemical element of a mineral by another analogous element?.. The writer has concluded that the ending ian, or oan if it is desired to indicate a lower valency, is the most satisfactory, and its consistent use is here advocated... If the chemical element has only one valency or the author does not wish to bring up the question of valency, ian should be used.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

单词	-ian
释义	-iansuffix Primary stress is usually attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly. 1. Representing Latin -iānus, i.e. an original or connecting vowel -i-, with suffix -ānus: see -an suffix 1a, ‘of or belonging to’. Formed by adding -ānus to stems ending in -i, as Italia, Italiānus, Fabius, Fabiānus, Vergilius, Vergiliānus, Christus, Christiānus. Hence, in many English words adapted or formed from Latin, in which the suffix forms both adjectives and nouns, as antediluvian, barbarian, historian, equestrian, patrician, saturnian; and in modern formations from proper names, the number of which is without limit, as Addisonian, Arminian, Arnoldian, Bodleian, Cameronian, Gladstonian, Hoadleian, Hugonian, Johnsonian, Morrisonian, Ruskinian, Salisburyian, Shavian, Sheldonian, Taylorian, Tennysonian, Wardian, Wellsian, Wordsworthian; Aberdonian, Bathonian, Bostonian, Bristolian, Cantabrigian, Cornubian, Devonian, Galwegian, Glasgowegian, Johnian, Oxonian, Parisian, Salopian, Sierra Leonian. There are also sportive formations, as any-lengthian. See also -an suffix. 2. Mineralogy. [Abstracted from the adjectives magnesian, manganesian.] Used to form, from the (English or Latin) names of the elements, adjectives having the sense ‘having a (small) proportion of a constituent element replaced by (the element concerned)’ (see quot. 1930). ΚΠ 1930 W. T. Schaller in Amer. Mineralogist 15 568 Can a uniform, clearly understandable scheme of nomenclature be adopted to express a minor and variable isomorphous replacement of an essential chemical element of a mineral by another analogous element?.. The writer has concluded that the ending ian, or oan if it is desired to indicate a lower valency, is the most satisfactory, and its consistent use is here advocated... If the chemical element has only one valency or the author does not wish to bring up the question of valency, ian should be used. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < suffix1930
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