| 单词 |
suppletive |
| 释义 |
suppletive, a. (n.)|sʌˈpliːtɪv|
[ad. med.L. supplētīvus, f. supplēt-: see supplete and -ive. Cf. F. supplétif.]
1. Having the attribute of supplying deficiencies. rare.
1816–30Bentham Offic. Apt. Maximized, Extract Const. Code 52 His functions will be exercised by a depute of his, as per Ch. viii. Prime Minister, §4. Self-suppletive Function. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 53 Cognition is here denoted by the suppletive expression after ‘will’.
2. Linguistics. Displaying suppletion. Also as n., a suppletive form.
1926L. Bloomfield in Language II. 161 If in a construction all the component forms are irregular, the whole form is suppletive. If go be taken as the stem of the verb, then the past went is suppletive. 1933Language IX. 83 ‘Buy’..appears only in the aorist, serving as suppletive to the present and imperfect of ὠνέοµαι. 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Language ii. ii. 140 For the suppletive comparatives and superlatives cf. the Germanic section. 1957S. Potter Modern Linguistics iv. 101 Aller is suppletive (aller, vais, irai). 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics v. 207 Such roots involving total variation among their allomorphs are sometimes called suppletive. 1976J. S. Gruber Lexical Structures in Syntax & Semantics ii. ii. 303 The past tense is not used in those cases in which we have a suppletive form.
So † suˈppletively adv., so as to supply deficiencies.
1644Maxwell Prerog. Chr. Kings x. 104 This tenet, that a King hath his Soveraigne power, communicativé, not privativé, from the people, that he is so invested with it, that the people have it habitually, suppletively, and may resume it in some exigent cases. [Cf.1660C. Bonde Scut. Reg. 71 The people..still retaining the same [government] in the collective body, that is to say, in themselves suppletive. ] |
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