单词 | singulare tantum |
释义 | singulare tantumn. Grammar. A word which has only a singular form: usually applied to mass (or uncountable) nouns. Cf. plurale tantum n. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [noun] > uncountable or mass noun material noun1892 mass-word1914 uncountable1924 mass noun1933 singulare tantum1940 quantifiable1957 1940 A. H. Gardiner Theory of Proper Names 27 A singulare tantum has developed a plural by cutting the designated entity, like a worm, into two parts. 1962 H. M. Hoenigswald in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 109 The ordinary coverage of singularia tantum, is mostly limited to mass nouns. 1979 Trans. Philol. Soc. 160 This is why the plural of dahyu- in the sense of ‘nations’ would have been translatable into Elamite only by taššup, a word which at xwāning was doomed to come out as the singularis tantum kāra-. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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