| 释义 |
‖ singulare tantum Gram.|sɪŋgjʊˈlɑːreɪ ˈtæntəm|
Also singularis tantum. Pl. singularia tantum.
[L. neut. phr., ‘singular only’.]
A word which has only a singular form: usu. applied to mass (or uncountable) nouns. Cf. plurale tantum.
1940A. H. Gardiner Theory of Proper Names 27 A singulare tantum has developed a plural by cutting the designated entity, like a worm, into two parts. 1962H. M. Hoenigswald in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 109 The ordinary coverage of singularia tantum, is mostly limited to mass nouns. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 160 This is why the plural of dahyu- in the sense of ‘nations’ would have been translatable into Elamite only by taššup, a word which at xwāning was doomed to come out as the singularis tantum kāra-. |