properness

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈpɹɒ.pə.nəs/    美 /ˈpɹɒ.pɚ.nəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or condition of being proper; propriety. uncountable,usually
    — The kind of women who put papers on shelves and had little towels like that instinctively distrusted and disliked Mack and the boys. Such women knew that they were the worst threats to a home, for they offered ease and thought and companionship as opposed to neatness, order, and properness.
  2. The state or condition of being proper (of a proper fraction, proper subset, etc.). uncountable,usually
  3. Excellence, quality. obsolete,uncountable,usually
    — Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits […] betook himself to his beads, and by those means got more honour than ever he should have done with the use of his limbs and properness of person […]

词形变化

propernesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
Latin propriusbor.
Anglo-Norman proprebor.
Middle English propre
English proper
Proto-Germanic *-in-
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
Proto-Germanic *-ōną
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English properness
From proper + -ness.
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