单词 | singular number |
释义 | > as lemmassingular number a. Grammar. Denoting or expressing one person or thing. Chiefly in singular number (also used figuratively). Opposed to plural adj. 1.Latin singularis appears in this sense from the time of Varro onwards. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > [adjective] > denoting one thing or person singulara1387 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > number > singular singulara1387 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 17 Everiche in þe singuler nombre was i-cleped Anthiochus. 14.. Crowned King (Skeat) 46 To shewe you my sentence in singuler noumbre; To peynte it with pluralitee my prose wolde faile. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. p. xxvi Theyr synguler nombre hath a great meyny of dyvers terminations. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 21v They simply vsed the singular name of God as if they were contented with one God alone. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. B3v There are two numbers, the singular speaking of one, the plurall of moe. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Que An interrogatiue of the Singular Number. a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1711) I. 258 Why, I believe, in the singular number? a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 64/1 We call ‘I love’ singular, and ‘we love’ plural. 1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence 99 Alms, eaves, riches, though treated as plurals, are singular in form. 1872 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence 100 Summons is a singular form..and is usually treated as such, making the pl. summonses. < as lemmas |
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