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appellative

Adjective, Noun

ap=pel=la=tive

WORDNET DICTIONARY

appellative(n = noun.communication) appellation, denomination, designation - identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others; Array

is a kind of name

has particulars: street name, byname, cognomen, moniker, nickname, sobriquet, soubriquet, form of address, title, title of respect, title

Derived form adjective appellative₂

appellative(a = adj.pert) Array - pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun; Array

appellative(s = adj.all) naming - inclined to or serving for the giving of names; "the appellative faculty of children"; "the appellative function of some primitive rites"

Derived form noun appellative₁

appellative, a. [L. appellativus, fr. appellare: cf. F. appelatif. See Appeal.].

Pertaining to a common name; serving as a distinctive denomination; denominative; naming. Cudworth. [1913 Webster]
Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class. [1913 Webster]

appellative, n. [L. appelativum, sc. nomen.].

A common name, in distinction from a proper name. A common name, or appellative, stands for a whole class, genus, or species of beings, or for universal ideas. Thus, tree is the name of all plants of a particular class; plant and vegetable are names of things that grow out of the earth. A proper name, on the other hand, stands for a single thing; as, Rome, Washington, Lake Erie. [1913 Webster]
An appellation or title; a descriptive name. [1913 Webster]
"God chosen it for one of his appellatives to be the Defender of them." [1913 Webster]

appellative, adj.
1 naming.
2 Gram. (of a noun) that designates a class; common.

Etymology

LL appellativus (as APPEAL, -ATIVE)

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