| 单词 | marcan |
| 释义 | Marcan in American English (ˈmɑrkən) adjective of or characteristic of the Evangelist Mark or the book of the New Testament ascribed to him Marcan in American English (ˈmɑːrkən) adjective of, pertaining to, or characteristic of St. Mark or of the second Gospel Also: Markan Word origin [1900–05; ‹ L Mārc(us) mark + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1900–05. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Young Turk, desensitize, hormone, hydroplane, internship-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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