英文词源
- prehensile
- prehensile: see prey
- prehensile (adj.)
- 1771, from French préhensile "adapted for grasping" (Buffon), from Latin prehensus, past participle of prehendere "to grasp, seize, get hold of," from prae- "before" (see pre-) + -hendere, from PIE root *ghend- "to seize, take" (see get (v.)). Latin -hendere is related to hedera "ivy," via notion of "clinging."
中文词源
prehensile：适于抓住的
词根词缀： -prehens-抓住 + -ile形容词词尾
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：prehensile 词源，prehensile 含义。
prehensile：能抓住东西的，缠绕的
来自拉丁语prehendere,抓住，握住，-s,过去分词后缀，来自pre-,在前，早于，预先，-hend,抓住，词源同get.