consumptive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
    — The consumptive has managed to shake the servant from her side and walks alone, striving to make it look easy.
形容词 adj.
  1. Having a tendency to consume; dissipating; destructive; wasteful.
    — a long consumptive war
  2. Of or relating to consumption.
  3. Relating to pulmonary tuberculosis.
    — consumptive cough

词形变化

more consumptive comparative most consumptive superlative consumptives plural

词汇关系

衍生词
consumptively consumptiveness nonconsumptive photoconsumptive unconsumptive

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.
Proto-Italic *emō
Latin emō
Latin sūmō
Latin cōnsūmō
Latin cōnsūmptus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -ive
Middle English consumptive
English consumptive
From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ive, from Middle English consumptive, from Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Proto-Indo-European *upó
Proto-Italic *supo
Latin sub
Latin sub-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁em-der.
Proto-Italic *emō
Latin emō
Latin sūmō
Latin cōnsūmō
Latin cōnsūmptus
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -ive
Middle English consumptive
English consumptive
From con- + Latin sūmptus + -ive, from Middle English consumptive, from Latin cōnsūmptus, past participle of cōnsūmō.
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