| 单词 | gratinate |
| 释义 | gratinate in British English (ˈɡratɪˌneɪt) verb (transitive) cookery to gratinee gratinee in British English (ˌɡratiːˈneɪ) verb (transitive) cookery to cook (food) au gratin gratinate in American English (ˈɡrætnˌeit) transitive verbWord forms: -nated, -nating to gratiné Word origin [1900–05; gratin + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: clone, elder statesman, hormone, hydroplane, throwaway-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)Examples of 'gratinate' in a sentence |
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