英语词汇“potamic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Word origin

[1880–85; ‹ Gk potam(ós) river + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, highball, impressionism, interface, irredentist-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)

单词	potamic
释义	potamic in British English (pəˈtæmɪk) adjective of or relating to rivers Word origin C19: from Greek potamos river potamic in American English (pouˈtæmɪk, pə-) adjective of or pertaining to rivers Word origin [1880–85; ‹ Gk potam(ós) river + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Chief of Staff, highball, impressionism, interface, irredentist-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
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potamic in British English

potamic in American English