| 单词 | expeditate |
| 释义 | expeditate in British English (ɛksˈpɛdɪˌteɪt) verb (transitive) to remove the claws or the balls of the forefeet from (a dog); to declaw expeditate in American English (ekˈspedɪˌteit) transitive verbWord forms: -tated, -tating to cut off the pads or claws of (an animal, esp. a dog) in order to inhibit deer chasing Derived forms expeditation noun Word origin [1495–1505; ‹ ML expeditātus (ptp. of expeditāre), equiv. to L ex- ex-1 + pedit- (s. of pedes) one who goes on foot + -ātus -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1495–1505. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: catechism, outside, pillion, tinsel, trafficex- is a prefix meaning “out of,” “from,” and hence “utterly,” “thoroughly,” and sometimesimparting a privative or negative force or indicating a former title, status, etc.;freely used as an English formative. Other words that use the affix ex- include: ex-member, ex-wife, exstipulate, exterritorial; -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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