| 单词 | verbal noun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasverbal noun verbal noun n. (formerly also †noun verbal) [after post-classical Latin nomen verbale (5th or 6th cent. in grammarians)] Grammar a noun formed from an inflection of a verb and partly sharing its constructions. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > nouns derived from verbs supinec1450 gerundive1483 verbal nouna1504 overthrown?1533 gerund1542 verbal substantive1570 a1504 J. Holt Lac Puerorum (1508) iii. sig. G.iiii Eyther by ye nowne verbale..or by the present subiunctyf. 1576 G. Ledoyen de la Pichonnaye Playne Treat. Frenche Tongue ii. sig. C.viv All names of beastes male, briefly all verball nounes, or other that belong onely to men, are of the masculine gender. 1659 O. Walker Some Instr. Art Oratory 32 Verbal nouns..some of them being augmentative, some diminutive. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. at Abandoning A verbal noun from abandon. 1864 Pennsylvania School Jrnl. Oct. 96/1 In the Latin there are no less than three modifications of the verb, used as the verbal noun, to wit, the infinitive, the gerund, and the supine. 1940 C. C. Fries Amer. Eng. Gram. 130 The prepositional infinitive was made up of the preposition or function word to and the dative case of a verbal noun. 2011 Jrnl. Qur'anic Stud. 13 61 As a verbal noun the term amāna has both an abstract and a concrete meaning. < as lemmas |
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