appellative

English

Alternative forms

• appel. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From the Late Latin appellātīvus, from the stem appella- (“to call”), with the adjectival suffix -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɛlətɪv/

Adjective

appellative (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to an appellative noun or common noun.
2. Of or pertaining to ascribing names.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: […] Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:

     as these things of nature, or natures of things, were sometimes deified by the Pagans plainly and nakedly in their own appellative names

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Derived terms

• appellatively
• appellativeness
• appellativization

 

Translations

of or pertaining to a common noun

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 普通名稱／普通名称 (pǔtōng míngchēng), 通稱名詞／通称名词 (tōngchēng míngcí)

• Finnish: appellatiivinen
• French: appellatif (fr)
• German: appellativ
• Greek: προσηγορικός (el) (prosigorikós)

  Ancient Greek: προσηγορικός (prosēgorikós)

• Latin: appellativus
• Russian: нарица́тельный (ru) (naricátelʹnyj), апелляти́вный (ru) (apelljatívnyj)

of or pertaining to ascribing names

• Finnish: appellatiivinen
• Portuguese: apelativo (pt)

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• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} нарицателен (naricatelen)

Noun

appellative (plural appellatives)

1. A common noun.
2. An epithet.

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Translations

common noun — see common noun

epithet

• Finnish: epiteetti (fi)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛ.la.tiv/ ~ /a.pe.la.tiv/
• Homophone: appellatives

Adjective

appellative

1. feminine singular of appellatif

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ap.pel.laːˈtiː.u̯e/, [äpːɛlːʲäːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.pel.laˈti.ve/, [äpːelːäˈt̪iːve]

Adjective

appellātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of appellātīvus