单词 | actinozoan |
释义 | actinozoan in British English (ˌæktɪnəʊˈzəʊən) noun, adjective another word for anthozoan actinozoan in American English (ˌæktəˌnoʊjuˈzoʊən) noun anthozoan Word origin < ModL Actinozoa (see actino- & -zoa) + -anactinozoan in American English (ækˌtɪnəˈzouən, ˌæktənə-) noun or adjective Zoology anthozoan Word origin [actino- + -zo(a) + -an]-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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