prepositional en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) 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)
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 364:
- (not-comparable) Of the prepositional case.
Deriveds
deprepositional · prepositionally · prepositional verb · prepositional phrase · phrasal prepositional verb · prepositional case · prepositional article · prepositional pronoun · nonprepositional
Translations (25)
ru предло́жный (of the prepositional case) · tg пешоянддор (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · de vorwörtlich (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · ga réamhfhoclach (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · ca preposicional (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · gd roimhearach (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · tg пешоянд (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · cy arddodiadol (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · it prepositivo (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · ru предло́жный (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · sq parafjalor (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · gl preposicional (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · pl przyimkowy (of the prepositional case) · fi etuasemainen (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · fr prépositionnel (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · pt preposicional (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · vo präpodik (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · cs předložkový (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · es preposicional (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · pl przyimkowy (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · it preposizionale (of the prepositional case) · pt preposicional (of the prepositional case) · hu elöljárós (of the prepositional case) · de präpositional (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition) · pt prepositivo (of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition)