| 单词 | aesopian |
| 释义 | Aesopian in American English (iˈsoʊpiən) adjective Also Aeˈsopic (iˈsɑpɪk)1. of Aesop or characteristic of his fables 2. concealing real purposes or intentions; dissembling Aesopian language Aesopian in American English (iˈsoupiən, iˈsɑpi-) adjective Also: Aesopic1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Aesop or his fables a story that points an Aesopian moral 2. conveying meaning by hint, euphemism, innuendo, or the like In the candidate's Aesopian language, “soft on Communism” was to be interpreted as“Communist sympathizer” Word origin [1870–75; ‹ LL Aesōpi(us) + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1870–75. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: billing, giveaway, immobilize, onshore, washout-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian) |
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