preposition

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
发音 prĕp-ə-zĭsh'ən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of a class of non-inflecting words and multiword terms typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word. strict-sense
    — 322. The parts of speech which are neither declined nor conjugated, are called by the general name of particles. 323. They are adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
  2. An adposition. broadly
  3. A proposition; an exposition; a discourse. obsolete
    — […] he made a longe preposicion & oracion cōcernynge yͤ allegiaūce which he exortyd his lordes to owe
动词 v.
  1. Alternative spelling of pre-position. alt-of,alternative,proscribed,sometimes
    — It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

词形变化

prepositions plural præposition alternative prepositions present,singular,third-person prepositioning participle,present prepositioned participle,past prepositioned past pre-position alternative

词汇关系

上位词
adposition part of speech term word
下位词
intransitive preposition phrasal preposition preposition of place
相关词
preverb
并列词
circumposition postposition

词源

词源 1
From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”), equivalent to pre- + position. Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-
Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-
Proto-Indo-European *-i
Proto-Indo-European *préh₂i?
Proto-Italic *prai
Proto-Italic *prai-
Latin prae-lbor.
Middle English pre-
English pre-
English position
English preposition
From pre- + position.
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