different between prepositional vs preposition

English

Etymology

From Latin praepositi? (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek ???????? (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) +? -al

Adjective

prepositional (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.

   •     Although we have concentrated on Prepositions which take zero Complements, NP Complements, or clausal Complements in our discussion above, there seems no reason in principle to exclude the possibility of Prepositions taking prepositional Complements. And it may well be that items such as those italicised below are Prepositions which subcategorise a PP Complement headed by of:
     (80) (a)      He stayed at home because [of the strike]
     (80) (b)      He fell out [of the window]
     (80) (c)      Few people outside [of the immediate family] know
     (80) (d)   %It fell off [of the table] (dialectal)

2. (grammar) Of the prepositional case.

Derived terms

• prepositional case
• prepositionally

Translations

Noun

prepositional (plural prepositionals)

1. (grammar) The prepositional case.

Translations

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English preposicioun, from Old French preposicion, from Latin praepositio, praepositionem, from praepono (“to place before”). Compare French préposition. So called because it is placed before the word with which it is phrased, as in a bridge of iron, he comes from town, it is good for food, he escaped by running.

Alternative forms

• præposition (archaic)

Pronunciation

• enPR: pr?p-?-z?sh'?n, IPA^(key): /?p??p??z???n/

Noun

preposition (plural prepositions)

1. (grammar, strict sense) Any of a class of non-inflecting words typically employed to connect a following noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word: a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word.
2. (obsolete) A proposition; an exposition; a discourse.

Hypernyms

• (grammar, strict sense): adposition

Coordinate terms

• (grammar, strict sense): circumposition
• (grammar, strict sense): postposition

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• preverb

Etymology 2

pre- +? position

Alternative forms

• pre-position

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i?p??z???n/

Verb

preposition (third-person singular simple present prepositions, present participle prepositioning, simple past and past participle prepositioned)

1. To place in a location before some other event occurs.

   It is important to preposition the material before turning on the machine.

Translations

Finnish

Noun

preposition

1. genitive singular of prepositio

Interlingua

Noun

preposition (plural prepositiones)

1. (grammar) A word that is used in conjunction with a noun or pronoun in order to form a phrase.

Swedish

Noun

preposition c

1. a preposition (part of speech)

Declension

Related terms

• prepositionell
• prepositionsadverbial
• prepositionsattribut
• prepositionsuttryck

References

• preposition in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)