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Decrease French Latin Present Stem 14c Anglo French 6392.Decrease

正面 6392.decrease
英 [dɪ'kriːs]美 [dɪ'kris]

背面
释义:
n. 减少,减小;减少量vi. 减少,减小vt. 减少,减小
例句:
1. If the egg is not fertilised oestrogen and progesterone decrease.如果卵细胞没有受精,雌激素和黄体荷尔蒙就会下降。

1、de- "away from" + creas- + -e.
decrease 减低de-, 向下。-cre, 创造,增加,词源同create, crescent.
decreasedecrease: [14] Etymologically, decrease means ‘ungrow’. It comes from de(s)creiss-, the present stem of Old French de(s)creistre, which was a descendant of Vulgar Latin discrēscēre. This was an alteration of Latin dēcrēscēre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dē-, denoting reversal of a previous condition, and crēscēre ‘grow’ (source of English crescent and a wide range of other words).=> crescent, croissant, increasedecrease (v.)late 14c., from Anglo-French decreiss-, present participle stem of decreistre, Old French descroistre (12c., Modern French décroître), from Latin decrescere "to grow less, diminish," from de- "away from" (see de-) + crescere "to grow" (see crescent). Related: Decreased; decreasing.decrease (n.)late 14c., "detriment, harm;" early 15c. as "a becoming less or smaller," from Anglo-French decres; see decrease (v.)."

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