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Definition of Derivational
1. Adjective. Characterized by inflections indicating a semantic relation between a word and its base. "The morphological relation between `sing' and `singer' and `song' is derivational"
Definition of Derivational
1. a. Relating to derivation.
Definition of Derivational
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to derivation; relating to that which is derived. ¹
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Definition of Derivational
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Derivational
Literary usage of Derivational
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An English Grammar: Methodical, Analytical, and Historical. With a Treatise by Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner (1874)
"2) derivational Suffixes of the Verb. The verbal derivation of the Romance
constituent of the English tongue attaches itself immediately to the French ..."
2. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"To classify derivations in this manner is to classify them according to their form.
4. According to the number of the derivational elements. ..."
3. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"Yet, as the fact of a word being sometimes used as a derivational addition does
... Sometimes the derivational element is a vowel (as the -ie in doggie); ..."
4. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1889)
"In the first part of^the present paper, I consider the properties of certain
derivational functions of a quantity U, linear in two separate sets of ..."
5. Celtic Studies: from the German of Dr. Hermann Ebel: With an Introduction on by Hermann Wilhelm Ebel, William Kirby Sullivan (1863)
"The occurrence of this derivational i as an element of stem-formation gives rise
to a distinct and important class of stems, which will be fully discussed ..."
6. The Atlantis by Dublin University College (1862)
"Here also we meet with forms which appear to belong to the class of vocalic stems
obtained by means of a derivational syllable-suffix, as described above, ..."
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