英語用拉丁文分詞後綴-atus轉變的-ate動詞構成後綴的用法是怎麼來的?

过去分词，实质上是动形词，又是动词，又是形容词。拉丁语形容词又可以直接做名词。所以，-ate在英语里可以同时是动词、形容词、名词后缀。

Old English commonly made verbs from adjectives by adding a verbal ending to the word (such as gnornian "be sad, mourn," gnorn "sad, depressed"), but as the inflections wore off English words in late Old and early Middle English, there came to be no difference between the adjective and the verb in dry, empty, warm, etc. Thus accustomed to the identity of adjectival and verbal forms of a word, the English, when they began to expand their Latin-based vocabulary after c. 1500, simply made verbs from Latin past-participial adjectives without changing their form (such as aggravate, substantiate) and it became the custom that Latin verbs were anglicized from their past participle stems.

rholin：Old English commonly made verbs from adjectives by adding a verbal ending to the word (such as gnornian "be sad, mourn,"...回到原帖

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