adposition

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin adpositio, from adpositum, past participle of adponere, an alternative form of apponere (“to put near”).

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈædpəˌzɪʃən/

NounEdit

adposition (plural adpositions)

1. (grammar) An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context.

SynonymsEdit

• preposition (broad sense)

HyponymsEdit

• preposition (narrow sense)
• postposition
• circumposition

TranslationsEdit

element combining with a phrase and indicating how to interpret the phrase in the context

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 介詞 (zh), 介词 (zh) (jiècí), 前置詞 (zh), 前置词 (zh) (qiánzhìcí) (preposition), 後置詞 (zh), 后置词 (zh) (hòuzhìcí) (postposition)

• Dutch: adpositie f
• Estonian: kaassõna
• Finnish: adpositio (fi)
• French: adposition (fr) f

• Georgian: თანდებული (ka) (tandebuli)
• German: Adposition (de) f, Präposition (de) f (broad sense), Verhältniswort (de), Lagewort (de)
• Japanese: 接置詞 (せっちし, setchishi)
• Portuguese: adposição (pt) f
• Romanian: adpoziție f
• Russian: предло́г (ru) m (predlóg) (preposition), послело́г (ru) m (poslelóg) (postposition)