declivitous

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Descending gradually; sloping; downhill.
    — Where the ground is declivitous, it is requisite that the hole should be deeper, in addition to which it should be artificially elevated on the edge of the lower side.
  2. At lower levels; lowly.
    — In France, Savoy, and the Southern Low Countries the structure of lordship was declivitous during the eleventh , twelfth , and thirteenth centuries; in other words, seigneurial rights and obligations were greater at lower levels of the hierarchy .

词形变化

more declivitous comparative most declivitous superlative declivous alternative

词源

Latin declivus (“sloping down”), from de- (“down from”) + clivus (“slope”).
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