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substituendum en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌsʌbstɪtjuˈɛndəm/
• /ˌsʌbstɪt͡ʃuˈɛndəm/

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substituendum; compare substituend.

Meanings

1. Something to be substituted or replaced.
   • In (6.16) and (6.17), the difference between substituens and substituendum is very pronounced[…] 2014 July 15, Sylvia Jaki, Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: “More Than Meats the Eye”, John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 188:
   • The sixth (ṣaṣthī́) sUP triplet is used to indicate that the expression after which it is introduced is the substituendum (sthāné-yogā). 1989 [c. 450 BCE], Pāṇini, translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Aṣṭādhyāyī, page 19:
   • For a given substituendum, there is usually only one clearcut choice for substitute. 1975, James Stanton Bare, “Methodological Considerations: The Pāṇinian Devices of Homogeneous Represenation and Āntaratamya”, in Phonetics and phonology in Pāṇini: the system of features implicit in the Aṣṭādhyāyī, page 103:

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