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(grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.

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supine

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/ˈs(j)uːpaɪn/

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also attributive

(grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.

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ラテン語などにおいて、受動分詞と同じ語幹を持ち、不定名詞の一形態として、アブラティブ格およびアクセサティブ格で用いられる活用形式を指す。

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ラテン語文法の講義で、教授は奪格や対格で用いられる、受動分詞と同じ語幹を持つラテン語の一種の動名詞の機能について説明した。

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(grammar, also attributively) In Latin and other languages: a type of verbal noun used in the ablative and accusative cases, which shares the same stem as the passive participle.

And here alſo you may obſerv, that the ſyllable which is doubled in the Preterperfect tenſ is not doubled in the Supines, as totondi to clip, make's tonſum: cecídi to beat, cæſum: […]

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(grammar, also attributively) In Swedish, Faroese, Icelandic and Old Norse: a verb form that combines with an inflection of ha/hafa/hava to form the present perfect and pluperfect tenses.

The three conjugations are distinguished principally by the ending of the supine. In the first conjugation the supine ends in at, as: tala speak talat spoken. In the second conjugation the supine ends in t after a consonant, as: köpa buy köpt bought. In the third conjugation the supine ends in it, as: taga take tagit taken.

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(grammar, also attributively) (obsolete terminology) The 'to'-prefixed infinitive in English or other Germanic languages, so named because the infinitive was regarded as a verbal noun and the 'to'-prefixed form of it was seen as the dative form of the verbal noun; the full infinitive.

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