English Explanatory Dictionary

singulative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of or pertaining to a grammatical form or construction that expresses the individuation of a single referent from a mass noun.
noun
  1. A singulative form or construction.

Word forms

singulative singulatives

Etymology

From French singulatif, from Latin singillatim (“singly", "one by one”), from singulus (“single", "separate”), from Proto-Italic *sem-g-lo-, a diminutive form derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”).

Related words

singular collective noun dual mass noun paucal plural trial

Derived words

singulatively
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