英语词汇-tude的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	-tude
词源	-tude syllable formed when the word-forming element -ude, making abstract nouns from adjectives and participles, is fixed to a base or to another suffix ending in -t or -te; from French -ude, from Latin -udo (stem -udin-). The equivalent of native -ness. Entries linking to -tude -ness word-forming element denoting action, quality, or state, attached to an adjective or past participle to form an abstract noun, from Old English -nes(s), from Proto-Germanic in-assu- (cognates: Old Saxon -nissi, Middle Dutch -nisse, Dutch -nis, Old High German -nissa, German -nis, Gothic -inassus), from -in-, originally belonging to the noun stem, + *-assu-, abstract noun suffix, probably from the same root as Latin -tudo (see -tude). attitudinal adj. "pertaining to attitude," 1831; see attitude + -al (1), and compare -tude. -nessattitudinal (adj.)finitude (n.)magnitude (n.)multitude (n.)negritude (n.)servitude (n.)valetudinarian (n.) updated on January 13, 2014
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