semelfactive

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from New Latin semelfactīvus, from to Latin semel (“once, a single time”) + factum (“event, occurrence”) + adjectival suffix -īvus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛməlˈfæktɪv/, /ˌsiːməlˈfæktɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

semelfactive (not comparable)

1. (grammar) That denotes a momentary or punctiliar action.

   Synonyms: momentane, momentary, instantaneous, punctual, nondurational

   Coordinate terms: continuative, durative, experiential, frequentative, habitual, imperfective, iterative

Derived terms

• semelfactively
• semelfactiveness
• semelfactivity

Translations

Translations

• Bulgarian: еднокра́тен (bg) m (ednokráten)
• Finnish: semelfaktiivinen, semelfaktiivi
• French: sémelfactif (fr)
• German: semelfaktiv, punktuell (de)
• Hungarian: mozzanatos (hu)
• Italian: semelfattivo m
• Japanese: 単一の (ja) (たんいつの, tan'itsú no)
• Latin: semelfactivus
• Polish: semelfaktywny
• Portuguese: semelfactivo
• Russian: однокра́тный (ru) m (odnokrátnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: једнократан

  Latin: jednokratan (sh)

• Spanish: semelfactivo

Noun

semelfactive (plural semelfactives)

1. (grammar) The semelfactive aspect.

Translations

semelfactive aspect

• Finnish: semelfaktiivinen aspekti
• French: aspect sémelfactif m
• German: Semelfaktiv m
• Italian: aspetto semelfattivo m
• Japanese: 単一の相 (たんいつのそう, tan'itsú no sō)
• Lithuanian: kartotinis veikslas m
• Portuguese: aspecto semelfativo m
• Russian: однокра́тный вид m (odnokrátnyj vid)
• Spanish: aspecto semelfactivo m