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词汇 -rel
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-rel

suffix forming nouns

mainly disparaging indicating a person or thing viewed as diminutive, trivial, or worthless
⇒ mongrel
⇒ wastrel

-rel

Word Origin
1
a noun suffix having a diminutive or pejorative force:
wastrel.
Also, -erel.
Origin
Middle English < Old French -erel, -erelle

Related Words

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-rela noun suffix having a diminutive or pejorative force, as in wastrel.
[Middle English, from Old French -erel, -erelle]
-rel
/rəl/  
suffix
forming nouns with diminutive or derogatory force such as cockerel, scoundrel
［构成名词］表示“小型”, “贬义”（如cockerel, scoundrel）。
词源
from Old French -erel（le）.
-rel or -erel (also formerly -ral, -ril),a diminutive and depreciatory suffix, in some cases representing OF. -erel (mod.F. -ereau) or -erelle, but in the majority of instances attached to native stems, or occurring in words of obscure origin: see the etym. notes to cockerel, dotterel, hoggerel, mackerel, pickerel; doggerel; gomerel, haverel, stammerel; bedrel, custrel, gamphrel, gangrel, mongrel, scoundrel, wastrel; costrel, kestrel.
-rel
also -erel, diminutive or deprecatory word-forming element, in some cases from Old French -erel (Modern French -ereau) or -erelle, but mostly used with native stems.
-rel /rɛl/ suffix.
ORIGIN: Repr. Old French -erel(le) (mod. -ereau).
Forming nouns with dim. or derog. sense, as cockerel, doggerel, mongrel, scoundrel.

-rel
  • -erel

    • Suffix

    1. pejorative suffix, as in wastrel
    2. diminutive suffix, as in cockerel

    Etymology

    From Middle English, from Old French -erel, -erelle.

    Derived terms

    English words suffixed with -rel
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