hyphenate

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/    美 /ˈhaɪf(ə)ˌneɪt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person or object with multiple duties, abilities or characteristics, such as "writer-director", "actor-model", or "singer-songwriter".
  2. A person whose ethnicity is a multi-word hyphenated term, such as "African-American".
    — We seem to have settled on African-American, and at first glance it certainly does seem logical. […] Not to mention what happens when hyphenates marry other hyphenates and have baby hyphenates.
动词 v.
  1. to break a word at the end of a line according to the hyphenation rules by adding a hyphen on the end of the line. transitive
  2. to join words or syllables with a hyphen. transitive
    — you have to hyphenate his surname as it's double-barrelled

词形变化

hyphenates present,singular,third-person hyphenating participle,present hyphenated participle,past hyphenated past hyphenates plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hyphenated hyphenator mishyphenate multihyphenate multihyphenated rehyphenate unhyphenate unhyphenated

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English hyphen
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
Proto-Italic *-ātos
Latin -ātuslbor.
English -ate
English hyphenate
From hyphen + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
词源 2
Etymology tree
English hyphen
English -ate
English hyphenate
From hyphen + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
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