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English
Etymology
exo- + passive
Adjective
exopassive (not comparable)
- (grammar, rare) Being or relating to the passive voice of certain verbs.
- (of verbs) Affecting the subject of the passive voice construction.
2002 February 10, Kala Tunu, “Tunu verbal system LONG”, in Conlang Mailing List, retrieved 9–14–2016:Exopassive verbs are viewed as directed towards the passive subject: 'to be beaten' naitake, 'to be fed' naimusa, 'to be given something' naitula.
- (of nouns) Derived from a transitive verb, indicating the object affected.
2011, Christopher Cullen, “Translating 宿 *sukh/xiu and 舍 *lhah/she—'lunar lodges', or just plain 'lodges'?”, in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, volume 33, page 88: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).
- (physics, rare) Allowing exoelectron emission.
1971, G. Holzapfel, E. Cryssou, “Exoelectronic Properties of Al₂O₃-Solids”, in Vagn Mejdahl, editor, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Luminescence Dosimetry, Risø, →ISBN: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.
Noun
exopassive (plural exopassives)
- (grammar, rare) A verb with passive form, indicating the state of or action toward the subject of the passive voice construction.
2007, Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 48:[For endopassives,] unlike exopassives, the hypothetical subject of the simplex is grammatically and semantically not available
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