appellative

English

Alternative forms

• appel. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From the Late Latin appellātīvus, from the stem appella- (“to call”), with the adjectival suffix -ive.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɛlətɪv/

Adjective

appellative (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of or pertaining to an appellative noun or common noun.
2. Of or pertaining to ascribing names.
   • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: Richard Royston, , →OCLC:

     as these things of nature, or natures of things, were sometimes deified by the Pagans plainly and nakedly in their own appellative names

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Derived terms

Translations

Noun

appellative (plural appellatives)

1. a common noun
2. an epithet

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Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛ.la.tiv/, /a.pe.la.tiv/
• Homophone: appellatives

Adjective

appellative

1. feminine singular of appellatif

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ap.pel.laːˈtiː.u̯e/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ap.pel.laˈti.ve/,

Adjective

appellātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of appellātīvus