单词 | activo-passive |
释义 | activo-passiveadj.ΚΠ 1860 F. Chance tr. R. Virchow Cellular Pathol. xvi. 342 (heading) Atheromatous process in arteries... Mixed, activo-passive processes. 1892 Philos. Rev. 1 513 Knowledge is an activity, an activo-passive experience of the subject. 2. Grammar. Of or designating a verb used intransitively with passive meaning; = active-passive adj. at active adj. and n. Compounds 2. Cf. passival adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > verb > [adjective] > other specific types of verb commonc1450 personal?1482 perfect1530 valuative1566 suppletive1633 auxiliary1751 active-passive1859 mutative1866 preterito-presential1875 preterite-present1888 passival1892 preteritive present1894 applicative1903 injunctive1910 activo-passive1927 ornative1934 eventive1946 notional1957 non-factive1969 contrafactive1979 1927 O. Jespersen Mod. Eng. Gram. III. xvi. 350 This activo-passive use of some verbs is only the last link of the long chain of phenomena considered in this chapter. 1966 Eng. Stud. 47 50 It cannot be denied that the ‘activo-passive’ use of the verb lends a special idea of pseudo-activity to the grammatical subject. 1988 Lit. & Ling. Computing 3 253/2 When there is no other alternative passive form than activo-passive, the activo-passivization must be carried out. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1860 |
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