apposition

See also Apposition

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

• From Latin appositio > appositum, past participle of apponere (“to put near”).

Noun

apposition (plural appositions)

1. (grammar) A construction in which one noun or noun phrase is placed with another as an explanatory equivalent, either having the same syntactic function in the sentence.
2. The relationship between such nouns or noun phrases.
3. The quality of being side-by-side, apposed instead of being opposed, not being front-to-front but next to each other.
4. A placing of two things side by side, or the fitting together of two things.
5. In biology, the growth of successive layers of a cell wall.
6. (rhetoric) Appositio

Translations

grammatical construction

• Bulgarian: приложение (bg) (priloženie)
• Czech: přístavek (cs) m
• Finnish: appositio (fi), rinnastus (fi)
• French: apposition (fr) f

• German: Apposition (de) f
• Irish: comhaisnéis (ga) f
• Russian: приложение (ru) (priložénije) n

relationship in such construction

• Finnish: rinnasteisuus (fi)

quality of being side by side

• Finnish: rinnakkaisuus (fi)

placing of two things side by side

• Finnish: rinnastaminen (fi)

biology: growth of successive layers of cell wall

• Finnish: appositio (fi), kerrostuminen (fi)

rhetoric: appositio — see appositio

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Finnish

Noun

apposition

1. Genitive singular form of appositio.