portmanteau

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pɔːtˈmæn.təʊ/    美 /pɔɹtˈmæn.toʊ/|/ˌpɔɹt.mænˈtoʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.
    — A Rover tooke him unprepared, / Search't his Port-mantua, bound him faſter, / And ſent him naked to his Maſter: […]
  2. A word formed by putting two words together and thereby their meaning.
    — Well, ‘slithy’ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau⸺there are two meanings packed up into one word.
  3. A portmanteau film.
    — We're so bombarded with images, it's a struggle to preserve our imaginations.' In response, he's turned to cinema, commissioning 11 film-makers to contribute to a portmanteau film, entitled '11'09"01' and composed of short films each running 11 minutes, nine seconds and one frame.
  4. A schoolbag. Australia,dated
  5. A hook on which to hang clothing. archaic
    — But before I started that long and rather far-fetched and not frightfully original digression, what I meant to say quite simply was that there are no portmanteaux to be examined here because the clientele of this café, ladies and gentlemen, does not sit down.
动词 v.
  1. To create a portmanteau word. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Made by combining two (or more) words, stories, etc., in the manner of a linguistic portmanteau. attributive,not-comparable
    — The overall narrator of this portmanteau story - for Dickens co-wrote it with five collaborators on his weekly periodical, All the Year Round - expresses deep, rational scepticism about the whole business of haunting.

词形变化

portmanteaus plural portmanteaux plural portmanteaus present,singular,third-person portmanteauing participle,present portmanteaued participle,past portmanteaued past portmanteau'd participle,past portmanteau'd past

词汇关系

衍生词
portmanbro portmanteau agreement portmanteau film portmanteau word

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Old French porter
Middle French porte
Latin mantellum
Middle French manteau
Middle French portemanteaubor.
English portmanteau
From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (sense 1). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Old French porter
Middle French porte
Latin mantellum
Middle French manteau
Middle French portemanteaubor.
English portmanteau
From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (sense 1). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this.
词源 3
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Old French porter
Middle French porte
Latin mantellum
Middle French manteau
Middle French portemanteaubor.
English portmanteau
From Middle French portemanteau (“coat stand”), from porte (“he carries”, third-person singular present indicative of porter (“to carry”)) + manteau (“coat”), literally “[that which] carries coat”.
The lexical sense (sense 2) was first used figuratively by Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass (1871) to describe the words he coined in the poem “Jabberwocky”, based on the concept of two words packed together, similar to a portmanteau (sense 1). Sense 3 (“portmanteau film”) is derived from this.
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