substituendum

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin substituendum; compare substituend.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌsʌbstɪt͡ʃuˈɛndəm/, /ˌsʌbstɪtjuˈɛndəm/

Noun

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substituendum (plural substituenda)

  1. (linguistics) Something to be substituted or replaced.
    • 1975, James Stanton Bare, “Methodological Considerations: The Pāṇinian Devices of Homogeneous Represenation and Āntaratamya”, in Phonetics and phonology in Pāṇini: the system of features implicit in the Aṣṭādhyāyī[1], page 103:
      For a given substituendum, there is usually only one clearcut choice for substitute.
    • 1989 [c. 450 BCE], Pāṇini, translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Aṣṭādhyāyī[2], page 19:
      The sixth (ṣaṣthī́) sUP triplet is used to indicate that the expression after which it is introduced is the substituendum (sthāné-yogā).
    • 2014 July 15, Sylvia Jaki, Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: “More Than Meats the Eye”[3], John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 188:
      In (6.16) and (6.17), the difference between substituens and substituendum is very pronounced []

Latin

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Participle

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substituendum

  1. inflection of substituendus:
    1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
    2. accusative masculine singular