单词 | cle |
释义 | -cle in British Englishsuffix forming nouns indicating smallness cubicle particle Word origin via Old French from Latin -culus. See -cule-cle in American English 1suffix a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, originally diminutive nouns, and later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin or in Neo-Latin coinages article conventicle corpuscle particle Word origin [‹ F, OF ‹ L -culus, -cula, -culum, var. of -ulus -ule with nouns of the 3d, 4th and 5th declensions, usually with the same gender as thebase noun]-cle in American English 2suffix a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, later in adaptations of wordsborrowed directly from Latin; in Latin, this suffix formed from verbs nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of the verb (cubicle, receptacle) or a means by which the action is performed (vehicle) Word origin [‹ F, OF ‹ L -culum, -cula ‹ *-tlom, *-tlā]Definition of '-cle' |
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