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Peak Column Hill Top Pronounced Rise Latin Cul

正面 7827.pronounced
英 [prə'naʊnst]美 [prə'naʊnst]

背面
释义:
adj. 显著的;断然的;讲出来的v. 发音;宣告;断言(pronounce的过去分词)
例句:
1. He walked around the garden and pronounced himself satisfied.他绕着花园走了走,说自己很满意。

1. excel / excellent => cell- / -cel "rise, be high, rise high" (Latin cellere (pp. celsus) "rise, be high"), cognate with Latin collis "hill", English hill, column, culminate.2. => hill, cul- "hill, top, peak, summit", col- "pillar, column, projecting object".3. => cul- + -men- / -min- "passive suffix" => culmen / culmin- "hill, top, peak, summit".4. Latin culmen (genitive culminis) "top, peak, summit".5. => col- + -umn (-omen-在此单词中的变体) (与单词 alumnus 类同,进行对照理解和记忆) => column "pillar, column, projecting object".6. culmin- "hill, top, peak, summit" + -ate => culminate.

pronounced (adj.)"spoken," 1570s, past participle adjective from pronounce (v.). Sense of "emphatic" is a figurative meaning first attested c. 1730."

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