| 释义 |
-cle
-cle suffix forming nouns indicating smallness: cubicle; particle. [via Old French from Latin -culus. See -cule]-cle1 , a suffix of Latin diminutive nouns borrowed into English via French: used later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin: article; conventicle; corpuscle; particle. [< French, Old French < Latin -culus, -a, -um, variant of -ulus -ule] -cle2 , a suffix of Latin nouns borrowed into English via French: used later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin; in Latin, it formed nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of a verb (cubicle; receptacle) or a means by which the action is performed (vehicle). [< French, Old French < Latin -culum, -cula] MedicalSee-cule |