exopassive
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being or relating to the passive voice of certain verbs.
adj
Being or relating to the passive voice of certain verbs.
noun
A verb with passive form, indicating the state of or action toward the subject of the passive voice construction.
Example Sentences
- "Exopassive verbs are viewed as directed towards the passive subject: 'to be beaten' naitake, 'to be fed' naimusa, 'to be given something' naitula."
- "An ‘exopassive’ of a transitive verb, according to Schuessler, may be a noun meaning "the thing that has been verb-ed", so that since *suk means ‘to lodge’, *sukh means ‘what is lodged in’—or, we may say, ‘a lodge’ (Schuessler 2007: 45)."
- "When powder materials with conductive exopassive admixtures (graphite) are used the double peak around 250°C may be convenient for the main dose read out and the double peak around 450°C for dose information storage only."
- "[For endopassives,] unlike exopassives, the hypothetical subject of the simplex is grammatically and semantically not available"
Etymology
From exo- + passive.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: exo