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单词 singulare tantum
释义

singulare tantumn.

/sɪŋɡjʊˈlɑːreɪ ˈtantəm/
Forms: Also singularis tantum. Plural singularia tantum.
Etymology: Latin neuter phrase, ‘singular only’.
Grammar.
A word which has only a singular form: usually applied to mass (or uncountable) nouns. Cf. plurale tantum n.
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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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