| 单词 | niobous |
| 释义 | niobous in British English (naɪˈəʊbəs) adjective of or containing niobium in the trivalent state Also: columbousniobous in American English (naɪˈoʊbəs) adjective Chemistry of or containing trivalent niobium niobous in American English (naiˈoubəs) adjective 1. Chemistry containing trivalent niobium, as niobous chloride, NbCl3 2. of or pertaining to niobium Word origin [1860–65; niob(ium) + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1860–65. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: calibrate, institutionalism, metric system, pop-up, prep-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous) |
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