-ine
后缀
英文释义
后缀
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Of or pertaining to.
— asinine, marine, bovine, cervine
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Used to form feminine nouns.
— hero + -ine → heroine
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Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive.
— cow + -ine → kine
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used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies
— cardueline, velociraptorine
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Used to form demonyms.
— Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine
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Used to form female given names or names of titles.
— Clement + -ine → Clementine
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Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.
— amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine
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used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera
— australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine
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Commercial materials.
— glass + -ine → glassine
词源
词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Italic *-īnos
Latin -īnusder.
Old French -inbor.
Middle English -in
English -ine
From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.
词源 2
From French -ine, feminine of -in; Latin -īna, feminine of -īnus.
词源 3
Variant of -en.
词源 4
From taxonomic suffix -inae, ultimately from the same root as Etymology 1.
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