单词 | -elle |
释义 | -elle a noun suffix occurring in loanwords from French, where it originally formed diminutives, now often with a derivative sense in which the diminutive force is lost (bagatelle; prunelle; rondelle); also in Anglicized forms of Latin words ending in -ella (organelle). [ < F < L -ella, fem. of -ellus, forming diminutives corresponding to stems ending in -ul- -ULE, -r- (see CASTELLUM), -n- (see PATELLA)] |
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