effete

漢語翻譯

a. 貧瘠的, 枯竭的, 衰微的

詞型變化：

名詞:effeteness 副詞:effetely 

英文解釋：

形容詞 effete:

1. marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
   同義詞：decadent

詳細解釋：

ef.fete

adj.（形容詞）
Depleted of vitality, force, or effectiveness; exhausted:
枯竭的：缺乏生氣、氣力或效率的；精疲力竭的：
例句：
the final, effete period of the baroque style.
巴洛克風格最後的衰竭時期

Marked by self-indulgence, triviality, or decadence:
頹廢的：以自我放縱、陳腐淺薄且頹廢墮落為特徵的：
例句：
an effete group of self-professed intellectuals.
一群自鳴頹廢的知識分子

Overrefined; effeminate.
過於嬌柔的；女人氣的
No longer productive; infertile.
貧瘠的：不能生產的；寸草不生的

來源：
Latin effôtus [worn out, exhausted]
拉丁語 effôtus [用盡，衰竭]
ex- [ex-]
ex- [前綴，表.無.]
fôtus [bearing young, pregnant] * see dhô(i)-
fôtus [幼育學，懷孕] *參見 dhô(i)-

【引伸】
effete.ly
adv.（副詞）
effete.ness
n.（名詞）
<注釋>The fact thateffete has come to mean .effeminate. marks a return to its etymological roots. Effete came into English from the Latin wordeffôtus, made up ofex-, .out,. and the adjective fôtus, .having recently given birth,. which is related to the nounfôtus, .offspring,. a word we have borrowed as well. Latineffôtus was used of plants that had borne fruit or of animals that had borne young, buteffôtus could also mean .worn out with bearing young, exhausted, feeble.. The English wordeffete, whose earliest appearance is recorded in '2, was first used in senses similar or identical to senses of Latineffôtus ; however, in the last two centuries or so the senses .characterized by weakness or decadence. and .overrefined, effeminate,. have appeared.Botheffeminate and effete go back to the same Indo-European root, dhô(i)-, meaning .to suck.. Ineffeminate we see the development from a form of the root meaning literally .she who suckles.; ineffete, the development from a form of the root that refers to the baby who sucks milk from the mother.
事實上，effete 這個詞表示.女人氣的.意義反而表明其意義更接近於其詞根的意義。 Effete 是從拉丁語effetus 傳入英文的， 這個拉丁語詞是由ex- 表.出.和形容詞 fetus 表.剛剛生產.組成的， 該詞與我們借用來的名詞fetus 表示.後代.有關。 拉丁語effetus 用於指植物剛剛結出果實或動物剛產幼仔， 但effetus 可能也表示.剛出生而精疲力竭、無力、柔弱.。 英文詞語effete 第一次記載於'2年， 當時的意義與拉丁語effetus 的意義基本相同或相似， 但從以後近兩個世紀以來，表示.柔弱或墮落.和.嬌柔或女人氣.的意義相繼出現。effeminate 和 effete 都源於同一印歐語系的詞根 dhe(i-) 意為.吸.。 在effeminate 中，我們看到從詞根形式拓展來的意義大體上是.餵奶的女人.； effete 從詞根形式發展而來的意義是指從母體身上汲取乳汁的幼兒