plusquam-comb. form

Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Some degree of stress is always maintained on the first syllable. If the subsequent element is an existing word, the word is likely to retain its original stress pattern, e.g. plusquam-clerical Brit.

/ˌplʌskwamˈklɛrᵻkl/, U.S.

/ˌpləsˌkwɑmˈklɛrək(ə)l/.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin plūs quam.

Etymology: < classical Latin plūs quam more than < plūs more (see plus prep., n., adv., and adj.) + quam, interrogative and relative adverb.Attested earliest in the 17th cent. in the Latin loan plusquamperfect adj., and the German loan plusquamperfection n. In English (chiefly ad hoc) formations from the first half of the 19th cent. onwards.

Combined with a following adjective or noun with the sense ‘(so as to go) beyond in degree; more than’.Mainly in ad hoc formations. Cf. more than at more adv. 1g.

ΚΠ

1648 C. Burges Sion College 13 Witness those few sheets of Bishop John, our Plusquam pontifician visitor, that now skulk up and down in his disciples pockets, before his whole book..be finished.

1824 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 357 To be accessary in having the plusquam-plebeian & malnominable name Fricker intruded on my Nephew's Heraldry.

1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 94 Long constructions strange and plusquam-thucydidëan.

1896 Daily News 6 June 5/7 Fanatics of the ultra-clerical and the plusquam-clerical type.

1945 E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages i. 37 The rhythm, however, is markedly anapaestic, and may even be called plus-quam anapaestic.

2002 Re: Creepy Psocialist Sci. Fiction in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet newsgroup) 31 Mar. That's the plusquam-Lovecraft horrific note the literary lady started by aimin' at, but she never really achieves it.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	plusquam-
释义	plusquam-comb. form Stress is usually determined by a subsequent element and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Some degree of stress is always maintained on the first syllable. If the subsequent element is an existing word, the word is likely to retain its original stress pattern, e.g. plusquam-clerical Brit. /ˌplʌskwamˈklɛrᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌpləsˌkwɑmˈklɛrək(ə)l/. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin plūs quam. Etymology: < classical Latin plūs quam more than < plūs more (see plus prep., n., adv., and adj.) + quam, interrogative and relative adverb.Attested earliest in the 17th cent. in the Latin loan plusquamperfect adj., and the German loan plusquamperfection n. In English (chiefly ad hoc) formations from the first half of the 19th cent. onwards. Combined with a following adjective or noun with the sense ‘(so as to go) beyond in degree; more than’.Mainly in ad hoc formations. Cf. more than at more adv. 1g. ΚΠ 1648 C. Burges Sion College 13 Witness those few sheets of Bishop John, our Plusquam pontifician visitor, that now skulk up and down in his disciples pockets, before his whole book..be finished. 1824 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 357 To be accessary in having the plusquam-plebeian & malnominable name Fricker intruded on my Nephew's Heraldry. 1848 A. H. Clough Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich i. 94 Long constructions strange and plusquam-thucydidëan. 1896 Daily News 6 June 5/7 Fanatics of the ultra-clerical and the plusquam-clerical type. 1945 E. K. Chambers Eng. Lit. at Close of Middle Ages i. 37 The rhythm, however, is markedly anapaestic, and may even be called plus-quam anapaestic. 2002 Re: Creepy Psocialist Sci. Fiction in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet newsgroup) 31 Mar. That's the plusquam-Lovecraft horrific note the literary lady started by aimin' at, but she never really achieves it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < comb. form1648
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