cinquean
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A possible solution is to keep the Cinquean analysis for plain adjectives and modify it so as to accommodate for operator adjectives as well."
- "Another difficulty with this approach is that it embodies essentially the Cinquean conception that proved problematic in section 5.3.2. As pointed out there, the nonrestrictive/restrictive contrast seems to cross-cut other semantically based adjective and adverb classes. Thus, even though this is essentially a Cinquean approach, in a curious way it would be difficult to reconcile with a broader Cinquean model […]"
Etymology
From Cinque + -an.