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Adjective Noun 10567.Adjective 英 ædʒɪktɪv]美 ædʒɪktɪv 释义 Adj

正面 10567.adjective
英 ['ædʒɪktɪv]美 ['ædʒɪktɪv]

背面
释义:
adj. 形容词的;从属的n. 形容词
例句:
1. a morphosyntactic rule of adjective agreement有关形容词一致的形态句法规则

1. 可能同源词:skid, ski, skate.2. shed => sheath, skid, ski.3. skid row 贫民窟.4. ski => skid.5. 谐音“ski的”。

adjectivelate 14c., as an adjective, "adjectival," in noun adjective, from Old French adjectif (14c.), from Latin adjectivum "that is added to (the noun)," neuter of adjectivus "added," from past participle of adicere "to throw or place (a thing) near," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + comb. form of iacere "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Also as a noun from late 14c. In 19c. Britain, the word itself often was a euphemism for the taboo adjective bloody.They ... slept until it was cool enough to go out with their 'Towny,' whose vocabulary contained less than six hundred words, and the Adjective. [Kipling, "Soldiers Three," 1888]"

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