Miocene(adj.)
"始新世和上新世之间的地质时期",1831年,不规则形成,由希腊语 meion "更少"(来自 PIE 词根 *mei-(2)"小")和 -cene "新的,最近的"组成。意图是"第三纪的中间部分"。
A typical example of the monstrosities with which scientific men in want of a label for something, and indifferent to all beyond their own province, defile the language. The elements of the word are Greek, but not the way they are put together, nor the meaning demanded of the compound. [Fowler]
这是科学家们在需要一个标签来描述某些事物时,不顾一切地污染语言的典型例子。这个词的元素是希腊语,但它们的组合方式和所需的复合词的意义并不是希腊语的。[福勒]
该词起源时间:1831年