英语单词词源词典+u

英语单词词源词典 u-ule suffix meaning "small, little" (capsule, module, etc.), from Fr. -ule, from L. diminu

英语单词词源词典 u -ule suffix meaning "small, little" (capsule, module, etc.), from Fr. -ule, from L. diminutive suffix -ulus (fem. -ula, neut. -ulum). -ulent from L. adj. suffix -ulentus "full of." u for historical evolution, see V. Used punningly for you by 1588 ["Love's Labour's Lost," V.i.60], not long after the pronunciation shift that made the vowel ahomonym of the pronoun. As asimple shorthand (without intentional word-play), it is recorded from 1862. Common in business abbreviations since 1923 (e.g. U-Haul, attested from 1951). U-bahn Ger. or Austrian subway system, 1938 (originally in ref. to Berlin), from Ger. U-bahn, short for Untergrund-bahn, lit. "underground railway."