单词 | parasynthetic |
释义 | parasyntheticadj.n. Grammar. A. adj. Formed from a combination or compound of two or more elements; formed by a process of both compounding and derivation.In English grammar applied to compounds one of whose elements includes an affix which relates in meaning to the whole compound; e.g. black-eyed ‘having black eyes’ where the suffix of the second element, -ed (denoting ‘having’), applies to the whole, not merely to the second element. In French grammar applied to derived verbs formed by the addition of both a prefix and a suffix. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [adjective] > compound > specific types of compound or compounding augmentative1641 polysynthetic1816 bahuvrihi1846 polysynthetical1846 agglutinating1847 agglutinative1847 agglomerative1854 parasynthetic1862 endocentric1933 unhyphenated1934 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 A. M. Elliot in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. July 187 That species of word-creation commonly designated as parasynthetic covers an extensive part of the Romance field. 1934 Rev. Eng. Stud. 10 279 Twenty-three..of the compound words present..are parasynthetic formations such as ‘black-haired’, ‘hard-hearted’. 1951 Language 27 137 Such verbs are very commonly parasynthetic, taking one of the prefixes ad-, ex-, in-. 1999 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 June vi. 16/2 Though broad-based is two centuries old, zero-based took off around 1970 and missile lingo gave us land-based, sea-based and space-based. A discussion of this particular parasynthetic derivative is based-based. B. n. A parasynthetic formation. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > morphology > word-formation > [noun] > derivation > derivation from a compound > word thus formed parasyntheton1870 parasynthetic1884 1884 A. M. Elliot in Amer. Jrnl. Philol. July 186 (heading) Verbal parasynthetics in a- in the Romance languages. 1973 Hispania 56 302/2 New formations, sometimes called ‘parasynthetic’, result from the addition of both a prefix and a suffix to a root or stem. One noun..and two adjectives..are formed by this process, all other parasynthetics being verbs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1862 |
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