| 单词 | patellate |
| 释义 | patellate in British English (pəˈtɛlɪt, -ˌleɪt) adjective having the shape of a patella Also: patelliform (pəˈtɛlɪˌfɔːm)patellate in American English (pəˈtelɪt, -eit) adjective 1. having a patella 2. patelliform Word origin [1820–30; patell(a) + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, analogue, blouse, morphology, tetrapod-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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