prepositional
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
adj
Of the prepositional case.
noun
The prepositional case.
Example Sentences
- "Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of: (80) (a) He stayed at home because [of the strike] (80) (b) He fell out [of the window] (80) (c) Few people outside [of the immediate family] know (80) (d) %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)"
Etymology
From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.