-ule
suff.(后缀)
语源
suff.(后缀)
- Small one:
小的东西:
valvule.
小瓣
语源
- French
法语 - from Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum [diminutive suff]
源自 拉丁语 -ulus, -ula, -ulum [表示小词]
-ule
suffix forming nouns
indicating smallness
⇒
globule
Origin
from Latin -ulus, diminutive suffix-ule
Word Origin
1
a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, originally diminutive nouns (capsule; globule; nodule) or noun derivatives of verbs (ligule).
Origin
< French < Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum diminutive formative with nouns of the 1st and 2nd declensions ≪ *-el- (cf. -cle1, -elle, -ole1); the deverbal suffix -ulus, etc. (cf. cingulum, tumulus) is of distinct orig.
Related Words
- -cle
- -elle
- -ole
- -ulous
- abaculus
- acervulus
-ulea diminutive suffix of nouns, as in globule.
[Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum]-ule
noun suffix
ductule
noun suffix
ETYMOLOGY French & Latin; French, from Latin -ulus, masculine diminutive suffix, -ula, feminine diminutive suffix, -ulum, neuter diminutive suffix
: little oneductule
-ule
suffix
- forming diminutive nouns such as capsule, pustule[构成名词] 表示“小”(如capsule, pustule)。
词源
from Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum.
-ule
word-forming element meaning "small, little" (in capsule, module, etc.), from French -ule, from Latin diminutive suffix -ulus (fem. -ula, neuter -ulum), from PIE *-(o)lo-, from *-lo-, secondary suffix forming diminutives, which also is the source of the first element in native diminutive suffix -ling.
ORIGIN: Repr. Latin dim. ending -ulus , -ula , -ulum .
-ule
suffix. small; little, as in ferule, granule, veinule.
[< Old French -ule, learned borrowing from Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum, a diminutive suffix]
-ule
\ˌyül\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: F&Latin; French -ule, from Latin -ulus, masculine diminutive suffix, -ula, feminine diminutive suffix, -ulum neuter diminutive suffix
: small one
< cymule >
< veinule >
< cymule >
< veinule >
-ule
Suffix
- rare, sciences Diminutive suffix.
Etymology
Latin -ula and French -ule.
Derived terms
English words suffixed with -ule
后缀:-ule [名词后缀]
表示小
spherule 小球(体)
globule 小球
barbule 小倒刺
granule 细粒(gran=grain)
antennule 小触须
zonule 小带,小区域
cellule 小细胞
nodule 小节,小瘤
pilule 小药丸(pil=pill)
gemmule 微芽