单词 | pinnulate |
释义 | pinnulate in British English (ˈpɪnjʊlət) or pinnulated (ˈpɪnjʊˌleɪtəd) adjective biology having pinnules a pinnulate leaf/arm/branch pinnulate in American English (ˈpɪnjəˌleit) adjective having pinnules Also: pinnulated Word origin [1820–30; pinnule + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: analogue, boomerang, exogenous, myth, phonetic-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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