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词根词缀:-ese

【来源及含义】Latin: suffix from -ensis, of, belonging to, from [a place]; originating in [a city or country]

【相关描述】Examples of -ese words include Milanese architect, Vietnamese people, with corresponding nouns meaning "native" or "inhabitant of" (a Viennese, the Japanese), "language of" (Chinese, Portuguese), or, by extension, "typical style" or "vocabulary of", as in journalese, bureaucratese, Johnsonese, New Yorkese".

【同源单词】academese, bureaucratese, Burmese, computerese, headlinese, journalese

词根词缀:leg-, lex

【来源及含义】Latin: pertaining to the law, legal

【相关描述】From Latin legalis and lex, legis, law; lex is singular while leges is plural.

【同源单词】colleague, college, collegial, collegian, collegiate, delegate