Wiktionary:Form-of templates

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Hierarchy

At the top of the hierarchy are tens of thousands of dictionary entries such as nests. The English noun section of that entry includes the code {{pl of|nest}} directly, with the language L=English implied. Template:pl of for plural forms is one of hundreds of form-of templates that lie at a low layer of the hierarchy.

At an intermediate stage are the entry templates, which can be used to create new entries depending on the ending of the word. In English, for instance, some inflected forms ending in s are nouns, some are verbs, and some are both. Although nests was not produced by this method, it could have been.

The verb section of nests was produced using the code {{subst:en-s of|nest}}, which expands to {{nth s sim pres of|nest|nth=3}} plus a trailing period. Language-specific form-of templates such as Template:en-s of are a different intermediate layer between the entries and the language-independent form-of templates. These templates must be employed with subst: for substitution. They should only be utilized when the more direct form-of templates are obscure in name.

At the deepest level of the heirarchy is Template:stylized root, which wraps the root term with the appropriate css classes. All language-independent form-of templates must transclude it. Any language-dependent form-of template, prefixed with a two- or three-letter language code, must transclude one or more language-independent form-of templates, as used on a single definition line.

Template:stylized root is deliberately cumbersome and not to be used within any dictionary entry directly. If necessary, the form-of templates can be circumvented using {{form of}} when no other template is appropriate.

Abbreviations

Standard abbreviations exist for form-of templates. The version whose name is fully expanded should redirect to the abbreviation is also allowed, except that certain words are necessarily excluded, namely:

form

mood

of (as the final word)

person

tense

For instance, "present tense form of" would be abbreviated as "pres" according to the list below. It would also be possible to use the full spelling "present".

Where two abbreviations are given, the first is preferred, and the second should redirect to the first.

abbreviation: abbr, abbrev

abessive: abes

ablative: abl (both conflict with other templates, as of now H. (talk) 12:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)), proposal: ablat

absolute: abs

accusative: acc

active: act

adessive: ades

allative: all

alternative: alt

apocopic: apoc

active: act

attributive: attr

combination: comb

comitative: comit

common: c

comparative: comp

conditional: cond

connegative: conneg

contraction: contr

dative: dat

definite: def

demonstrative: demon

elative: elat

essive: ess

feminine: f

fifth: 5th

first: 1st

formal: form

fourth: 4th

future: fut

genitive: gen

gerund: ger

illative: ill

imperfect: imperf

imperative: imper

impersonal: impers

indefinite: indef

indicative: indic

inessive: ines

infinitive: inf

informal: inform

instructive: instr

interrogative: inter

intransitive: intr

irregular: irreg

masculine: m

negative: neg

neuter: n

nominative: nom

participle: part

partitive: partit

passive: pas

perfect: perf

personal: pers

plural: pl, p (all three conflict with other templates, as of now H. (talk) 12:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)) proposal: plur

positive: pos

possessive: posses

potential: pot

predicative: predic

present: pres

preterite: pret

progressive: prog

pronominal: pron

reflexive: refl

relative: rel

second: 2nd

simple: sim

singular: s, sing

spelling: spell

subjunctive: subj

superlative: super

supine: sup

third: 3rd

transitive: tr

translative: transl

vocative: voc

Since all of the abbreviations are reserved for a specific use, for some words an abbreviation has not been established. A convenient abbreviation may expand to the full word via redirect. Abbreviations such as "trans" may vary depending on context and are not listed above, although they may also redirect be allowed for convenience. For instance, "pp" is not reserved, so Template:pp of redirects to Template:past part of for the past participle for English it is used for past participle, where the standard "past part" also works.

Suffixes are allowed as "-suffix". Certain words are too short to be abbreviated:

in: in

long: long

of: of (excluded when final)

past: past

short: short

Ordinals are passed as nth=number. If useful for a particular language, these can be called indirectly and abbreviated as "1st", "2nd", etc.