Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A verbal adjective in Latin that in the nominative case expresses the notion of fitness or obligation and in other cases functions as a future passive participle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name given originally by Latin grammarians to the future participle passive, as amandus, ‘to be loved, requiring to be loved,’ but also used in the grammars of other languages, as Sanskrit, to indicate verbal adjectives having a like office. Also
gerundial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or partaking of, the nature of the gerund; gerundial.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The gerundive is the name given to the future passive participle (§374. d) when the participle approaches the meaning of a verbal noun and is translated like a gerund.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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The gerundive is a verbal adjective and must be used instead of gerund + object, excepting in the genitive and in the ablative without a preposition.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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The gerundive is a verbal adjective and must be used instead of gerund + object, excepting in the genitive and in the ablative without a preposition.
Latin for Beginners Benjamin Leonard D'Ooge 1900
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A substantive in the ablative absolute for no known reason very seldom denotes a person or thing elsewhere mentioned in the same clause, but the conditional applies through the gerundive which is defined as a conditional anyway.
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Then the infinitive must be rendered "by killing thee" -- a kind of gerundive use.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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The issue of gerundive subjects comes up in a sentence like (3), where the question becomes whether me or my is the better choice:
The prescriptivists’ untying of this Gordian Knot is flawed « Motivated Grammar 2008
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The issue of gerundive subjects comes up in a sentence like (3), where the question becomes whether me or my is the better choice:
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Personally, I like the sound of that: an active process, implied by the present participle, or indeed by the gerundive.
Archive 2007-02-01 Adam Roberts Project 2007
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Personally, I like the sound of that: an active process, implied by the present participle, or indeed by the gerundive.
The mysteries of the English tongue Adam Roberts Project 2007
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What is more, even when this distinction has been drawn, the denotations of the gerundive phrases often remain ambiguous, especially when the verbs whose nominalizations appear in these phrases are causatives.
Action Wilson, George 2007
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