millennial
中文来自 ECDICT
- adj.
- 一千年的，千福年的
构词拆分
millennium词根/词干
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-al后缀
Of or pertaining to. Adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to produce an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also. · Forming nouns, especially of verbal action.
演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 书面借自 ←晚期拉丁语 mīllennium “millennium”
原始词根
词源说明
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Late Latin mīllennium (“millennium”) + English -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives; and forming nouns). The English word may be analysed as millennium + -al or milli- (prefix meaning ‘thousand’) + -ennial (suffix meaning ‘years’).
Adjective sense 5 (“of or relating to, or characteristic of, people born in the last two decades of the 20th century”) was coined by the American authors William Strauss (1947–2007) and Neil Howe (born 1951) in their book Generations (1991): see the quotations.
The noun is derived from the adjective.
释义（英文）
形容词 Adjective
- Thousand-year-old; also (by extension, loosely) thousands of years old.
- Occurring every thousand years.
- Occurring at, or relating to, the beginning or end of a millennium.
- Referring to the thousandth anniversary of an event or happening