consummate

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒnsəmət/|/ˈkɒnsjʊmət/|/kənˈsʌmɪt/    美 /ˈkɑnsəmət/|/kənˈsʌmɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bring (a task, project, goal etc.) to completion; to accomplish. transitive
    — Although it was agreed by all that discovery must be consummated by possession and use, […]
  2. To make perfect, achieve, give the finishing touch. transitive
  3. To make (a marriage) complete by engaging in first sexual intercourse. transitive
    — the marriage was never consummated
  4. To become perfected, receive the finishing touch. intransitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Complete in every detail, perfect, absolute.
    — There lacke many things, that a consummate carde should haue.
  2. Supremely skilled and experienced; highly accomplished; fully qualified.
    — a consummate sergeant
  3. Consummated, completed, perfected, fully accomplished. obsolete
    — Till righteous fate Upon the Wooers' wrongs were consummate.
  4. Consummated. obsolete
    — I doe but ſtay till your marriage be conſummate, and then go I toward Arragon.

词形变化

more consummate comparative most consummate superlative consummates present,singular,third-person consummating participle,present consummated participle,past consummated past

词汇关系

衍生词
consummately consummate marriage unconsummate consummative consummatory unconsummatable unconsummated
相关词
consummation consummator

词源

词源 1
First attested in the beginning of the 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English consummat(e) (“(past participle) fulfilled, completed; (adjective) perfect, consummate”), borrowed from Latin cōnsummātus, perfect passive participle of cōnsummō (“to sum up, finish, complete”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from con- (“together”) + summa (“a sum”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix); see sum, summation. Common participial usage up until Early Modern English.
词源 2
First attested in c. 1525; either inherited from Middle English *consummaten (only attested in compound tenses) or directly borrowed from Latin consummātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
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