apostrophic

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to the rhetoric use of, or using, apostrophe (sudden, exclamatory dialogue). rhetoric
    — 7 June 1820, Lord Byron, a letter to Mr. Murray written from Ravenna Mrs. Hemans is a poet also, but too stiltified and apostrophic, […]
  2. Pertaining to the grammatical use of, or using, the apostrophe (the diacritical mark ').
    — All we need to know is that, in Shakespeare’s time, an apostrophe indicated omitted letters, which meant Hamlet could say with supreme apostrophic confidence: “Fie on’t! O fie!”; […]

词汇关系

衍生词
apostrophically

词源

Etymology tree
English apostrophe
Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
Proto-Italic *-ikos
Latin -icuslbor.
Old French -iquebor.
Middle English -ik
English -ic
English apostrophic
From apostrophe + -ic.
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