English Explanatory Dictionary

proprium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A property that applies to all members of a species and only to them, serving to distinguish the species from other species within the same genus, yet is not part of the true definition or the essence of the species.
  2. Selfhood.

Word forms

proprium propria

Etymology

From Latin proprium (“of one's own”).

Related words

nomen proprium
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary