英语词汇“prototherian”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; ‹ NL Prototheri(a) (‹ Gk prōto- proto- + thēría, pl. of thēríon beast) + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barnstorm, highball, interface, quotation mark, rain check-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian)

单词	prototherian
释义	prototherian in British English (ˌprəʊtəʊˈθɪərɪən) adjective 1. of, relating to, or belonging to the Prototheria, a subclass of mammals that includes the monotremes noun 2. any prototherian mammal; a monotreme Compare eutherian, metatherian Word origin C19: New Latin, from proto- + Greek thēria wild animals prototherian in American English (ˌproutəˈθɪəriən) adjective 1. belonging or pertaining to the group Prototheria, comprising the monotremes noun 2. a prototherian animal Word origin [1880–85; ‹ NL Prototheri(a) (‹ Gk prōto- proto- + thēría, pl. of thēríon beast) + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1880–85. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: barnstorm, highball, interface, quotation mark, rain check-an is a suffix occurring originally in adjectives borrowed from Latin, formed from nounsdenoting places (Roman; urban) or persons (Augustan), and now productively forming English adjectives by extension of the Latin pattern.Attached to geographical names, it denotes provenance or membership (American; Chicagoan), the latter sense now extended to membership in social classes, religious denominations,etc., in adjectives formed from various kinds of noun bases (Episcopalian; pedestrian; Puritan; Republican) and membership in zoological taxa (acanthocephalan; crustacean). Attached to personal names, it has the additional senses “contemporary with” (Elizabethan; Jacobean) or “proponent of” (Hegelian; Freudian) the person specified by the noun base. It also occurs in a set of personal nouns,mainly loanwords from French, denoting one who engages in, practices, or works withthe referent of the base noun (comedian; grammarian; historian; theologian)
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prototherian in British English

prototherian in American English