different between nonvirile vs noun

English

Alternative forms

• non-virile

Etymology

non- +? virile

Adjective

nonvirile (not comparable)

1. Not virile.
   • 1984, Tony Hillerman, "The Spell of New Mexico"

     Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual.

   • 1992, Edward Jayne, "Negative poetics"

     Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual […]

   • 2004, Jude Deveraux, "Remembrance"

     As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.

2. (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in some Slavic languages for plurals of masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine, and neuter nouns, i.e. for all groups that do not include men or personal masculine nouns.
   • 1975, Maria Zagórska Brooks, "Polish Reference Grammar (page 317)"

     The nonvirile form is used for nouns of masculine gender not referring to human beings and for neuter and feminine gender nouns. […] Numerals from five through ten distinguish between two forms: the form for virile gender nouns and the form for nonvirile gender nouns which the numerals quantify.

Antonyms

• virile

English

Etymology

From Middle English noun, from Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin n?men (“name; noun”). The grammatical sense in Latin was a semantic loan from Koine Greek ????? (ónoma). Doublet of name.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /na?n/
• (Southern American English, MLE) IPA^(key): /næ?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

noun (plural nouns)

1. (grammar, narrow sense) A word that functions as the name of a specific object or set of objects, such as person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality, or idea; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English.

2. (grammar, now rare, broad sense) Either a word that can be used to refer to a person, animal, place, thing, phenomenon, substance, quality or idea, or a word that modifies or describes a previous word or its referent; a substantive or adjective, sometimes also including other parts of speech such as numeral or pronoun.

Usage notes

• (narrow sense) In English (and in many other languages), a noun can serve as the subject or object of a verb. For example, the English words table and computer are nouns. See Wikipedia’s article “Parts of speech”.

Synonyms

• name, nameword
• (sensu stricto) noun substantive, substantive noun, substantive, naming word

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

• nominal

Translations

See also

• countable

Verb

noun (third-person singular simple present nouns, present participle nouning, simple past and past participle nouned)

1. (transitive) To convert a word to a noun.
   • 1974, The Modern Schoolman, page 144:

     What is not clear is how the nouning of verbs supports Simon's assumed correspondence between mechanical designing and intentional human responses. Is it the very nouning of verbs which indicates that the above correspondence exists?

Translations

References

• noun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• noun at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• non-U

Chuukese

Determiner

noun

1. third person singular possessive; his, hers, its (used with a special class of objects including living things)
2. son of, daughter of

Related terms

Middle English

Alternative forms

• none, nown, nowne, noune

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman noun, non, nom, from Latin n?men, a semantic loan from Koine Greek ????? (ónoma). Doublet of name.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nu?n/

Noun

noun (plural nounes)

1. (grammar) noun (part of speech; a category of words including substantives or nouns in the strict sense and adjectives)
2. An appellation.

Descendants

• English: noun

Hyponyms

(grammar):

• noun substantyf
  • noun abstract
  • noune collectyf, nown collectif
  • nowne appellatiue
• noun adiectyf

References

• “n?un(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• non

Etymology

From Latin non.

Adverb

noun

1. (Mistralian) no

Old French

Noun

noun m (oblique plural nouns, nominative singular nouns, nominative plural noun)

1. Alternative form of nom