-ard 或 -art
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- One that habitually or excessively is in a specified condition or performs a specified action:
过于…的人:习惯地或过度地处于一种特定情况或进行特定活动的人:
drunkard.
醉鬼
语源
- Middle English
中古英语 - from Old French
源自 古法语 - [of Germanic origin] * see kar-
[源于日耳曼语的] *参见 kar-
-ard or -art
suffix forming nouns
indicating a person who does something, esp to excess, or is characterized by a certain quality
⇒
braggart
⇒
drunkard
⇒
dullard
Origin
via Old French from Germanic -hard (literally: hardy, bold), the final element in many Germanic masculine names, such as Bernhard Bernard, Gerhart Gerard, etc-ard
Word Origin
1
a suffix forming nouns that denote persons who regularly engage in an activity, or who are characterized in a certain way, as indicated by the stem; now usually pejorative:
coward; dullard; drunkard; wizard.
Also, -art.
Origin
Middle English < Old French, probably extracted from Frankish compound personal names; compare Old High German Adalhart (French Alard), Bernhart (French Bernard), with 2nd element -hart literally, strong, hardy, hard (cognate with Old English -heard in names), often merely as intensifier of quality denoted in 1st element.
Related Words
- becard
- billiard
- brassard
- buzzard
- Cagoulard
- Camisard
-arda noun suffix, originally intensive but now often depreciative or without special force as in coward, drunkard, wizard.
Also, -art. [Old French -ard, -art, from German -hart, hard, hardy; related to hard]
-ard
noun suffix
also -art
braggart
dullard
pollard
noun suffix
also -art
ETYMOLOGY Middle English, from Anglo-French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German -hart (in personal names such as Gērhart Gerard), Old English heard hard
: one that is characterized by performing some action, possessing some quality, or being associated with some thing especially conspicuously or excessivelybraggart
dullard
pollard
-ard
suffix
- forming nouns such as bollard, wizard[构成名词,如bollard, wizard]。
- ■ forming nouns having a depreciatory sense[构成带贬义的名词]:
-
drunkard
dullard.
词源
from Old French, from German -hard 'hard, hardy'.
-ard
also -art, from Old French -ard, -art, from German -hard, -hart "hardy," forming the second element in many personal names, often used as an intensifier, but in Middle High German and Dutch used as a pejorative element in common nouns, and thus passing into Middle English in bastard, coward, blaffard ("one who stammers"), etc. It thus became a living element in English, as in buzzard, drunkard.
☞ -ard, -art
-ard
\ə(r)d or, in a few loan words from French (as “communard”), |ärd or |ȧd\ noun suffix
also -art\ə(r)t\
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German -hart (in personal names such as Gērhart Gerard); akin to Old English heard hard — more at hard
: one that is characterized by performing some action, possessing some quality, or being associated with some thing especially conspicuously or excessively
< braggart >
< drunkard >
< dullard >
< pollard >
< sluggard >
< stinkard >
< wizard >
: a large one of its kind
< staggard >
also -art
< braggart >
< drunkard >
< dullard >
< pollard >
< sluggard >
< stinkard >
< wizard >
: a large one of its kind
< staggard >
-ard
Suffix
- someone who is in a specified condition e.g. a drunkard
Etymology
From Old French -ard (suffix), from Old Frankish *-hard (“hardy, bold”), from Proto-Germanic *harduz (“hard”)
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -ard
后缀:-ard [名词后缀]
表示人(大多含有贬义)
drunkard 醉鬼,酒徒
laggard 落后者
Spaniard 西班牙人
bastard 私生子
dullard 笨人,笨汉
coward 胆怯者
dotard 年老昏惯的人
wizard 奇才,男巫
sluggard 懒汉
niggard 守财奴