adjutant英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A lower-ranking officer who assists a higher-ranking officer with administrative affairs.
An assistant.
Either of two species of stork of the genus Leptoptilos, family Ciconiidae, native to India and Southeast Asia.

— Aquatic birds of various kinds are very numerous, such as geese, darters (Plotus melanogaster), scissor-bills (Rhynchops nigra), adjutants (Leptoptilos argala), pelicans, cormorants, cranes (Grus antigone, in Burmese gyoja), whimbrels, plovers, and ibises.

形容词 adj.

Assistant; who helps a higher-ranking officer. not-comparable

— adjutant officer

词形变化

adjutants plural

词汇关系

下位词

greater adjutant lesser adjutant marabou

衍生词

adjutancy adjutant bird adjutant general adjutant-general adjutantship adjutant stork coadjutant greater adjutant lesser adjutant

词源

词源 1

Probably partly from Spanish ayudante and partly Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), use as nouns of adjectives from the present participles of Spanish ayudar and Portuguese ajudar, respectively, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after Latin adiūtāns, present participle of adiūtō, from adiuvō (“to help, assist”) + -tō (frequentative suffix).

词源 2

Probably partly from Spanish ayudante and partly Portuguese ajudante (“assistant, helper, aide”), use as nouns of adjectives from the present participles of Spanish ayudar and Portuguese ajudar, respectively, from Latin adiūtō (“to help, assist”), with remodeling after Latin adiūtāns, present participle of adiūtō, from adiuvō (“to help, assist”) + -tō (frequentative suffix).