nutate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To rock or sway involuntarily. intransitive
  2. To wobble; to make a circular rocking motion. intransitive

词形变化

nutates present,singular,third-person nutating participle,present nutated participle,past nutated past

词汇关系

衍生词
circumnutate

词源

First attested in 1880; back-formation from nutation (1610s) on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix), from Latin nūtātiō (“a nodding”), from nūtō (“to nod”), from Proto-Indo-European *neu-. Compare mutate.
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