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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

characterizational en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek χαράσσω (kharássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Hellenic *-tḗr Ancient Greek -τήρ (-tḗr) Ancient Greek χαρακτήρ (kharaktḗr) Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō) Ancient Greek χᾰρακτηρίζω (khăraktērízō)der. Medieval Latin charactērizōder. English characterize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English characterization English -al English characterizational From characterization + -al.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to characterization.
    • However, this physical context may well be confused with a mental context, which would be the context of a characterizational judgment. 1979, S. Y. Kuroda, Generative Grammatical Studies in the Japanese Language, page 52:

Deriveds

characterizationally