| 单词 | ruthenious |
| 释义 | ruthenious in British English (ruːˈθiːnɪəs) adjective of or containing ruthenium in a divalent state ruthenious in American English (ruˈθiniəs) adjective designating or of chemical compounds containing ruthenium with a lower valence than in the corresponding ruthenic compounds ruthenious in American English (ruːˈθiniəs, -ˈθinjəs) adjective Chemistry containing bivalent ruthenium Word origin [1865–70; rutheni(um) + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: figure skating, racism, steamroller, tick-tack-toe, valence-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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