-ine

短语

[医]〔后缀〕意为：生物碱, 卤素, 有机碱

发音

/-aɪn/
/-iːn/
/-ɪn~-ən/

释义与例句

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  1. 1.

    Of or pertaining to.

    习语

    asinine, marine, bovine, cervine

  2. 2.

    Used to form demonyms.

    Levantine, Byzantine, Argentine, Florentine

  3. 3.

    Used to form names of chemical substances, especially basic (alkaline) substances, alkaloidal substances, or halogen elements.

    化学

    amine, aniline, caffeine, iodine

  4. 4.

    used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to hominoid genera

    australopithecine, dryopithecine, pithecanthropine

  5. 5.

    Commercial materials.

    glass + -ine → glassine

  6. 1.

    Used to form feminine nouns.

    习语

    hero + -ine → heroine

    speaker + -ine → speakerine

    Paul + -ine → Pauline

  7. 2.

    Used to form female given names or names of titles.

    习语

    Clement + -ine → Clementine

    landgrave + -ine → landgravine

  8. 1.

    Found in the plural forms of a small number of English words. Not productive.

    cow + -ine → kine

    sow + -ine → swine

  9. 1.

    used to form vernacular nouns and adjectives relating to animal taxonomic subfamilies

    生物 动物学

    cardueline, velociraptorine

词源

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine From Middle English -in, -ine, from Old French -in, -ine, from Latin -īnus, from Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos. More at -en.

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