单词 | pileous |
释义 | pileous in British English (ˈpaɪlɪəs, ˈpɪl-) adjective biology 1. hairy 2. of or relating to hair Word origin C19: ultimately from Latin pilus a hairpileous in American English (ˈpaɪliəs; ˈpɪliəs) adjective hairy or furry Word origin < L pilus, hair (see pile2) + -eouspileous in American English (ˈpailiəs, ˈpɪli-) adjective hairy or furry Word origin [1835–45; pile3 + -ous]This word is first recorded in the period 1835–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: basic, communism, cutaway, grandstand, placement-ous is a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of”a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannotbe directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; stupendous). As an adjective-forming suffix of neutral value, it regularly Anglicizes Greekand Latin adjectives derived without suffix from nouns and verbs; many such formationsare productive combining forms in English, sometimes with a corresponding nominalcombining form that has no suffix (as -fer and -ferous; -phore and -phorous; -pter and -pterous; -vore and -vorous) |
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