prescriptivist英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Someone who lays down rules regarding language usage, or who believes that traditional norms of language usage should be upheld.

— The plutocratic tone and styptic wit of Safire and Newman and the best of the Prescriptivists is often modeled after the mandarin-Brit personas of Eric Partridge and H. W. Fowler, the same Twin Towers of scholarly Prescriptivism whom Garner talks about revering as a kid.

形容词 adj.

Having a tendency to prescribe.

— In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.

词形变化

prescriptivists plural more prescriptivist comparative most prescriptivist superlative

词汇关系

近义词

prescriptionist

反义词

descriptionist descriptivist descriptionistic descriptivistic

词源

词源 1

Etymology tree
English prescriptive
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English prescriptivist
From prescriptive + -ist.

词源 2

Etymology tree
English prescriptive
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
English prescriptivist
From prescriptive + -ist.