(as an adjective) From, related to, or like. · (as a noun) One from, belonging to, relating to, or like.
词源说明
From Timon + -ian, after the 5th-century-BCE person Timon of Athens (as described by Plutarch, Lucian, and Aristophanes), possibly by way of William Shakespeare's play Timon of Athens (c. 1607). Used by poet John Langhorne in his translation of Plutarch's Lives (1777).
释义
形容词adjective
1Of a form of bitter misanthropy relating to Timonism, like Timon of Athens.
Of or pertaining to; an adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. (Often added to words of Latin origin, but also used with words of other origins. When a word ends in a, -n is used instead.) · One from, belonging to, relating to, or like.