-an

短语

suf. 表示; “碳水化合物的酐类”：dextran; “不饱和的碳化物”：tolan; 用于专有人、地名等后构成通常可兼作名词用的形容词表示“…时期的(人)”, “…地方的(人)”, “在…居住的(人)”, “在…出生的(人)”：American, Asian, Elizabethan, Victorian; 用于表示体制、学科等的词后及宗教或其他流派创始人的人名后构成可兼作名词的形容词或单词性的形容词或名词表示“精通…的(人)”, “带有…特征的(人)”, “属于…的(人)”, “信奉…的(人)”, “追随…的(人)”

词形变化

-ans more -an 比较级 most -an 最高级 -ans 复数

别名

-ane -ian -n

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    Of or pertaining to; an adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. (Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a, -n is used instead.)

    Rome + -an → Roman

  2. 2.

    Appended to nouns to form an agent noun. (When males with a profession are distinguished from females, males are -an, females -(i)enne.)

    comedy + -an → comedian

    history + -an → historian

词源

From Middle English -an, regularly -ain, -ein, -en, from Old French -ain, -ein, or before i, -en (modern French -ain, -en, feminine -aine, -enne), from Latin -ānus (feminine -āna), which forms adjectives of belonging or origin from a noun, being -nus [cognate with Ancient Greek -νος (-nos)] preceded by a vowel, from Proto-Indo-European *-nós. Cognate with English -en. Compare with -in, -ine.

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