| 单词 | cirrate |
| 释义 | cirrate in British English (ˈsɪreɪt), cirrose or cirrous adjective biology bearing or resembling cirri Word origin C19: from Latin cirrātus curled, from cirruscirrate in American English (ˈsɪrˌeɪt) adjective Biology having cirri Word origin L cirratus < cirrus, a curlcirrate in American English (ˈsɪreit) adjective Botany & Zoology having cirri Word origin [1820–30; ‹ L cirrātus, equiv. to cirr(us) a curl + -ātus -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1820–30. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acetate, analogue, karma, morphology, tetrapod-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 'cirrate' in a sentence |
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