| 单词 | amygdalate |
| 释义 | amygdalate in British English (əˈmɪɡdəlɪt, -ˌleɪt) adjective relating to, having, or bearing almonds amygdalate in American English (əˈmɪɡdəlɪt, -ˌleit) adjective pertaining to, resembling, or made of almonds Word origin [1650–60; ‹ L amygdal(a) almond + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1650–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: agency, oscillation, romantic, syllabus, triplet-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate) |
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