megalocomparative

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Of or pertaining to megalocomparison. derogatory,historical,often,rare
    — The height of Benedictine megalocomparative ingenuity is reached in the concept of split cognates, i.e. cognates that have reflexes of at most one given proto-phoneme in common, since they descend from different syllables of a polysyllabic etymon.

词形变化

more megalocomparative comparative most megalocomparative superlative

词源

From megalocomparison, equivalent to megalo- + comparative. Coined by Matisoff (1990) in a critique of Joseph Greenberg's "mass comparison" (see quotation at megalocomparison).
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