agnate

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
    — A great-grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
  2. Any paternal male relative.
  3. A statement having a similar meaning to another, but a different structure.
形容词 adj.
  1. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
  2. allied; akin
    — Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.
  3. Having a similar semantic meaning.
    — [...] we can talk about a swim, a drink, a look, even though swim, drink and look can also show up as verbs in agnate clauses.

词形变化

agnates plural more agnate comparative most agnate superlative

词汇关系

近义词
agnatic patrilineal
反义词
enate
衍生词
agnatic agnation

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin agnātuslbor.
English agnate
Learned borrowing from Latin agnātus (“paternal kinsman”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin agnātuslbor.
English agnate
Learned borrowing from Latin agnātus (“paternal kinsman”).
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