praegnans constructio
Meanings
noun
- A construction commonly found in Greek and Hebrew in which either a verb of motion is paired with a locative prepositional phrase or a static verb is paired with an allative preposition phrase.
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Etymology
From Latin cōnstructiō (“a grammatical construction”) and Latin praegnāns (“pregnant”).
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