单词 | nomen agentis |
释义 | nomen agentisn. Grammar. An agent noun; a word or phrase that functions as an agent noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > other specific types of noun increaser1612 regulara1637 energizer1751 agent noun1782 nomen actionis1820 segolate1831 class noun1849 patrial1854 nomen agentis1859 metaplast1864 agent word1879 post-genitive1922 conversion-noun1928 noun adjective1930 head noun1933 relatum1933 actant1967 class name1994 1859 W. Wright tr. C. P. Caspari Gram. Arab. Lang. I. 124 The verbal adjectives, derived from the first form of the triliteral verb, have two principal forms, namely, the nomen agentis..and the nomen patientis. 1876 J. H. McIlvaine Elocution 278 There are several exceptions to this rule, as where the following syllable is any of the verbal endings..of the nomen agentis. 1928 C. Bergener Contrib. Study Conversion of Adjs. into Nouns ii. 18 When a nomen agentis is contrasted with an absolute past participle of the corresponding verb (as in..the tortured does not salute her torturers). 1966 Eng. Stud. 47 53 This is an old trait in Germanic where the pres. participles had the character and regimen of nomina agentis. 1992 H. Kuhn in C. Blank Lang. & Civilization I. 614 A large and unproblematic group are English loanwords ending in -er..as both German and Danish have a large number of nomina agentis with a similar ending. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1859 |
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