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‖ relatum|rɪˈlɑːtəm, -ˈeɪtəm|
Pl. -ata.
[a. L. relātum, neut. pa. pple. of referre refer.]
a. Logic. = relate n. 2.
b. Linguistics. (Brøndal's term for) the substantival member of a prepositional phrase (see relator 4).
1872G. Grote Aristotle iii. 101 Habit, disposition, perception, cognition, position, &c., are all Relata. Ibid. 102 The Relatum and its Correlate seem to be simul naturâ. If you suppress either one of the pair, the other vanishes along with it. 1893W. Minto Logic iii. 118 In mediæval logic the term Relata was confined to these perfect cases, but the Category had a wider scope with Aristotle. 1903B. Russell Princ. Math. ii. 24 The class of terms to which some term has the relation R..I call the class of relata. Thus if R be paternity..the relata will be children. 1933[see descriptor]. 1946Language XXII. 219 The relatum is most commonly a noun or other type of substantive expression. 1953[see relator 4]. 1974L. Sklar Space, Time, & Spacetime iii. 167 For temporal and spatiotemporal relata the idealization is that of the instantaneous event. |