gerundive
/dʒəˈrʌndɪv
/noun Grammar
A form of a Latin verb, ending in -ndus (declinable) and functioning as an adjective meaning ‘that should or must be done’.The Turkish sentence has an economy of words and an elegance which are due to the language being agglutinative, using participles, gerundives, and gerunds....
- They were copies of ‘Anglice Reddenda’, a very nice example of a gerundive: ‘Things to be translated into English’.
- I said all of the above emphasised with many gerundives of the vernacular terms for pundendum.
Origin
Middle English (in the sense 'gerund'): from late Latin gerundivus (modus) 'gerundive (mood)', from gerundium (see gerund).
- theosopher
- theosophic
- theosophical
- theosophically
- theosophist
- theosophy
- theoterrorism
- theotherapy
- the other day (or night, week, etc.)
- the other side of the coin
- the other thing
- the other way round (or around; also about)
- Theotokos
- the/our Saviour
- the Outer House of the Court of Session
- the Ozarks
- the Pacific
- the Pale
- the Pamirs
- the Pandects
- the Paralympics
- the Paris Commune
- the Parquet
- the Paschal Lamb
- the Passion