单词 | parasynthesis |
释义 | parasynthesisn. Grammar. Derivation from a compound; word-formation involving both compounding and derivation. Cf. parasynthetic adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > derivation from a compound parasynthesis1862 1862 H. W. Chandler Greek Accent. Pref. xii It is said that synthesis does, and parasynthesis does not affect the accent; which is really tantamount to saying, that when the accent of a word is known..we shall be able to judge whether a Greek grammarian regarded that word as a synthetic or parasynthetic compound. 1884 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. July 193 The principle of parasynthesis..is more regularly and extensively developed here [i.e. in Portuguese] than in any other one of the Romance group of languages. 1968 Current Anthropol. 9 174/1 A highly formalized interplay of prefixes and suffixes..known to me under the label ‘parasynthesis’. 1993 Language 69 210/2 Circumfixation, which [he] following the tradition of Romance philology, terms parasynthesis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1862 |
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