singulative
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or pertaining to a grammatical form or construction that expresses the individuation of a single referent from a mass noun.
noun
A singulative form or construction.
Example Sentences
- "English doesn't have a singulative number in general, but many uncountable nouns have usual singulative constructions."
- "The singulative of "cattle" is "a head of cattle"."
- "The singulative of "scissors" is "a pair of scissors"."
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”).
Origin
- Source language: French