Definition of Substantival

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or having the nature or function of a substantive (i.e. a noun or noun equivalent). "A substantival constituent"

Category relationships: Grammar
Partainyms: Substantive
Derivative terms: Substantive

Definition of Substantival

1. a. Of or pertaining to a substantive; of the nature of substantive.

Definition of Substantival

1. Adjective. (grammar) Of or pertaining to a substantive. ¹

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Definition of Substantival

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Substantival

substantializations
substantialize
substantialized
substantializes
substantializing
substantially
substantialness
substantials
substantiate
substantiated
substantiates
substantiating
substantiation
substantiations
substantiative
substantival (current term)
substantivalist
substantivalists
substantivally
substantive
substantive adjective
substantive adjectives
substantive case
substantive cases
substantive dye
substantive law
substantively
substantiveness
substantives
substantivisation

Literary usage of Substantival

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"The substantivo which is resolved into the substantival clause, would stand generally in ... and substantival clauses are divided into those introduced by ..."

2. A Grammar of the Greek Language: Chiefly from the German of Raphael Kühner by William Edward Jelf (1842)
"The substantive which is resolved into the substantival clause, ... and substantival clauses are divided into those introduced by 5т t or ..."

3. A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition by Thomas Kerchever Arnold (1908)
"Ut, Ne, INTRODUCING A substantival CLAUSE.1 117. One of the main difficulties in translating English into Latin is to know when to represent the English ..."

4. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1892)
"substantival SUFFIXES (continued). § 204. (3). Excluding the suffixes already explained in the last Chapter, the principal substantival suffixes are due to ..."

5. Principles of English Etymology by Walter William Skeat (1892)
"substantival SUFFIXES (continued). § 204. (3). Excluding the suffixes already explained in the last Chapter, the principal substantival suffixes are due to ..."

6. The philology of the English tongue by John Earle (1880)
"I. substantival, II. Adjectival, III. Adverbial. I. substantival PRONOUNS. 465. These are the pronouns of which, if the reader asked himself what ..."

7. The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon by Morgan Callaway (1913)
"Ш. OTHER substantival USES OF THE INFINITIVE. In my reading I have found only a few examples of other substantival uses of the infinitive in the kindred ..."

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