单词 | vexillate |
释义 | vexillate in American English (ˈvɛksəlɪt; ˈvɛksəˌleɪt) adjective having a vexillum or vexilla vexillate in American English (ˈveksəlɪt, -ˌleit, vekˈsɪlɪt) adjective having a vexillum or vexilla Word origin [vexill(um) + -ate1]-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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