determinans

See also: determináns and déterminans

English

Etymology

From Latin dētermināns, present active participle of dēterminō (“fix the limits of something”), from dē + terminō (“bound, limit”).

Noun

determinans

1. (grammar) A modifier; a word that modifies another word.

   In the noun phrase “noun phrase”, “noun” is the determinans and “phrase” is the determinatum.

Related terms

• determinatum

Translations

Translations

• German: (in compound words) Bestimmungswort (de), Beysatz, Determinans (de)
• Latin: (in compound words) adjunctum

See also

• composition
• compound word, compound

Latin

Etymology

Present participle of dēterminō.

Participle

dētermināns (genitive dēterminantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. delimiting, confining, defining, designating

Declension

Third-declension participle.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Nominative	dētermināns			dēterminantēs	dēterminantia
Genitive	dēterminantis			dēterminantium
Dative	dēterminantī			dēterminantibus
Accusative	dēterminantem	dētermināns		dēterminantēs dēterminantīs	dēterminantia
Ablative	dēterminante dēterminantī1			dēterminantibus
Vocative	dētermināns			dēterminantēs	dēterminantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.