| 单词 | matthean |
| 释义 | Matthean in American English (mæˈθiən) adjective of or characteristic of the Evangelist Matthew or the book of the New Testament ascribed to him Matthean in American English (mæˈθiən, mə-) adjective of or pertaining to the Gospel of Matthew or the traditions contained in it Word origin [1895–1900; ‹ LL Matthae(us) matthew + -an]This word is first recorded in the period 1895–1900. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Marxism, apothecaries' measure, backstage, frame of reference, hit-and-run-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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