agential

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An affix that forms agent nouns.
    — Semantically, a majority of agentials refer to avian vocalization. Examples are: screamer, whistler, warbler, trumpeter, and the suffixless chat.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
    — Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  2. That forms agent nouns.
    — Even if the suffix be formally identical with the agential suffix, it has not the same function.

词形变化

more agential comparative most agential superlative agentials plural

词汇关系

衍生词
agentially

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agēnsder.
English agent
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English agential
From agent + -ial.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
Proto-Italic *agō
Latin agō
Latin agēnsder.
English agent
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālisder.
Old French -ialder.
Middle English -ial
English -ial
English agential
From agent + -ial.
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