semelfactive

English

Etymology

From New Latin semelfactīvus, equivalent to Latin semel (“once, a single time”), from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one, together”); plus factive, from Latin factum (“event, occurrence”), from faciō (“to do”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to put, to do”); plus the Latin adjectival suffix -īvus.

Adjective

semelfactive (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of or relating to the semelfactive aspect.

Synonyms

• (grammar): momentane, momentary, instantaneous, punctual, nondurational

Antonyms

• (grammar): continuative, durative, experiential, frequentative, habitual, imperfective, iterative

Translations

of or relating to the semelfactive aspect

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

  Cyrillic: једнократан

  Roman: 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)
• Latin: semelfactivus m
• Lithuanian: kartotinis (veikslas)
• Portuguese: aspecto semelfativo m
• Russian: однокра́тный вид m (odnokrátnyj vid)
• Spanish: aspecto semelfactivo m

See also

• perfective aspect
• Wikipedia article on grammatical aspect