单词 | inflex |
释义 | inflexn. In the grammar of the Bantu languages, the particle prefixed to a root, to form a noun, which has functions similar to those of inflectional suffixes in the Aryan and Semitic languages. (Also called prefix or initial.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > morpheme > [noun] > affix > prefix > specific un1650 augment1671 inflex1859 particule1889 preverb1906 1859 Colenso First Steps Zulu-Kafir ii. 4 Every Zulu noun consists of two parts, the root and the inflex, the latter being a small particle, which is set before the root, forming with it the complete noun... We give the name of inflex to this initial particle, because, by changes of it, certain modifications of the noun are effected, as they are in Latin and Greek, by means of terminal particles..Thus..in the Zulu word umuntu, person, the root is ntu, and the inflex umu, which is changed to aba for the plural, and the whole word becomes abantu, people. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). † inflexadj. Botany. Obsolete. rare. = inflexed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > curved inwards combingc1503 inbenta1586 inbending1622 inflexed1661 incurvated1665 inflex1753 incurvate1776 incurved1816 rolled-in1832 introflexed1846 incurving1865 inflected1870 inwound1876 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Leaf Inflex Leaf, that which in growing from its base, turns its point again toward the plant. 1791 T. Martyn tr. J. J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. (ed. 3) xvii. 234 The petals are inflex [(eds. 1 & 2) inflexed], or bent upwards at the end. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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