-uncle
suffix
- forming chiefly diminutive nouns主要构成表示“小”的名词:
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carbuncle
peduncle.
词源
from Old French -oncle, -uncle, or from Latin -unculus, a special form of -ulus.
1825 Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indic. (1830) 71Not a reformatiuncle of his (as Hartley would have called it) did Romilly ever bring forward, that he had not first brought to me.
1875 . [ see pseudonymuncle]
ORIGIN: Repr. Old French -uncle (-oncle ) and ult. Latin -unculus , -uncula .
词根词缀:-uncle
【来源及含义】Latin: a suffix; little, small
【同源单词】carbuncle, caruncle, cerebral peduncle, peduncle, sectiuncle, siphuncle