| 释义 |
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024-cle1 , - 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; corpuscle;particle.
- Latin -culus, -cula, -culum, variant of -ulus -ule with nouns of the 3d, 4th and 5th declensions, usually with the same gender as the base noun
- French, Old French
, - a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, later in adaptations of words borrowed 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).
- *-tlom, *-tlā
- Latin -culum, -cula
- French, Old French
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -cle suffix forming nouns - indicating smallness: cubicle, particle
Etymology: via Old French from Latin -culus. See -cule |