| 单词 | moschate |
| 释义 | moschate in British English (ˈmɒskeɪt) adjective having a smell similar to musk moschate in American English (ˈmɑskeit, -kɪt) adjective having a musky smell Word origin [1820–30; ‹ NL moschātus, equiv. to ML mosch(us) musk + L -ātus -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: boomerang, insider, myth, phonetic, takeoff-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate) |
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