brachy-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Short:
短的：
brachydactylic.
短指的
语源
- Greek brakhu-
希腊语 brakhu- - from brakhus [short] * see mregh-u-
源自 brakhus [短的] *参见 mregh-u-
brachy-
combining form
indicating something short
⇒
brachycephalic
Origin
from Greek brakhus shortbrachy-
Word Origin
1
a learned borrowing from Greek meaning “short,” used in the formation of compound words:
brachycerous.
Origin
< Greek, combining form of brachýs
Related Words
- brachistochrone
- brachycephalic
- brachycerous
- brachycranic
- brachydactylia
- brachydome
brachy-a word element meaning 'short', as in brachycephalic.
[Greek, combining form of brachys]brachy-
combining form
brachycephalic
combining form
ETYMOLOGY Greek, from brachys — more at brief
: shortbrachycephalic
brachy-
combining form
- short表示“短的”：
-
brachycephalic.
词源
from Greek brakhus 'short'.
1895 W. R. Fisher Schlich'sMan. Forestry IV. iii. ii. 402The fungus can gain admission only through wounds, frequently of brachyblasts eaten by Coleophora laricella. [ sc. larch-blister]
1821 Blackw. Mag. X. 386The ancients had no such verse as the Iambic trimeter brachycatalectic.
1875 W. Houghton Sk. Brit. Ins. 107Another brachyceral fly.
1875 Blake Zool. 283The brachycerous Dipterans comprise..the Gad-flies.
1902 Biometrika I. 462 In both races platycephaly is associated with brachycranial characters.
1868 Dana Min. Introd. 25The short lateral or brachydiagonal . [ axis]
Ibid. 26The planes form what is called a brachydome, they being parallel to the shorter lateral axis.
1879 Rutley Stud. Rocks x. 119In the direction of the..brachydiagonal it is hyacinth-red.
Ibid. 97The cleavages, which are parallel to the base and brachypinakoid.
1881 Academy 22 Oct. 315 Macropleural and brachypleural types.
1937 Discovery Mar. 91/2 This brachypterism, as it is termed, occurs also in the Orthoptera and Rhynchota.
1939 Nature 15 Apr. 645/2 Ruwenzori provides numerous examples of species of insects which are either short winged (brachypterous) in the female or in both sexes... Apart from this phenomenon of ‘brachypterism’ no obvious cases of adaptation to mountain conditions among insects were noted.
1842 Brande Dict. Sci. 163/1Brachypterous, in ornithology, when the folded wings of a bird do not reach to the base of the tail.
1937 H. Thoms in Surg. , Gynecol. &Obstetr. LXIV. 701/1To these four types the following Greek derivatives lend themselves admirably..: (1) Dolichopellic type or anthropoid pelvis; (2) mesatipellic type or round pelvis; (3) brachypellic type or oval pelvis; (4) platypellic type or flat pelvis.
Ibid. ,I have introduced the term brachypellic, which Turner did not employ, in order to reserve the term platypellic for those pelves which show marked anteroposterior flattening, i.e. , a transverse diameter greatly in excess of the anteroposterior diameter.
1980 Gray's Anat. (ed. 36) iii. 387/1In one large series, children and males were found to be predominantly dolichopellic, females mostly mesati- and brachy-pellic.
brachy-
word-forming element meaning "short," from Latinized comb. form of Greek brakhys "short" (see brief, adj.).
brachy-
combining form
Etymology: Greek, from brachys — more at brief
1. : short
< brachycephalic >
2. : brachydiagonal — in terms in crystallography
< brachydome >
1.
< brachycephalic >
2.
< brachydome >
brachy-
Prefix
- short
Derived terms
English words prefixed with brachy-