-adelphiacomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin -adelphia.

Etymology: < scientific Latin -adelphia (in e.g. Diadelphia Diadelphia n., Monadelphia Monadelphia n., Polyadelphia Polyadelphia n.) < Hellenistic Greek -αδελϕία , combining form (in e.g. ϕιλαδελϕία brotherly love: see philadelphian adj.¹) < ancient Greek ἀδελϕός brother (see adelphous adj.) + -ία -ia suffix¹.Found in a small number of borrowings in the 18th cent.

Botany.

(Not productive in English.) Occurring in the names of Linnaean classes of plants which have the stamens united by their filaments into a number of bundles specified by the first element, as Diadelphia n., Monadelphia n., Polyadelphia n., etc.

ΚΠ

1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §456 The more or less complete union of the filaments of the stamens into bundles, or brotherhoods; on account of which the termination adelphia is applied to the number of such bundles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	-adelphia
释义	-adelphiacomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the second syllable of this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin -adelphia. Etymology: < scientific Latin -adelphia (in e.g. Diadelphia Diadelphia n., Monadelphia Monadelphia n., Polyadelphia Polyadelphia n.) < Hellenistic Greek -αδελϕία , combining form (in e.g. ϕιλαδελϕία brotherly love: see philadelphian adj.¹) < ancient Greek ἀδελϕός brother (see adelphous adj.) + -ία -ia suffix¹.Found in a small number of borrowings in the 18th cent. Botany. (Not productive in English.) Occurring in the names of Linnaean classes of plants which have the stamens united by their filaments into a number of bundles specified by the first element, as Diadelphia n., Monadelphia n., Polyadelphia n., etc. ΚΠ 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §456 The more or less complete union of the filaments of the stamens into bundles, or brotherhoods; on account of which the termination adelphia is applied to the number of such bundles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < comb. form1858
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