单词 | impassionate |
释义 | impassionate in British English (ɪmˈpæʃənɪt) adjective impassioned impassioned in British English (ɪmˈpæʃənd) adjective filled with passion; fiery; inflamed an impassioned appeal impassionate in American English (imˈpæʃənɪt) adjective filled with passion; impassioned Derived forms impassionately adverb Word origin [1595–1605; impassion + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Creole, exposure, option, redundant, vernacular-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 'impassionate' in a sentence |
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