paucalとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈpɔːkəl/
• (米国発音) enPR: päʹkəl, IPA: /ˈpɔkəl/

形容詞

paucal (not comparable)

1. Characterized by having a small number, greater than two, of (usually equivalent) components.
2. (grammar) Pertaining to a language form referring to a few or a couple of something (typically three to around ten), e.g. a small group of people.

   Coordinate terms: singular, dual, trial, plural

   first-person paucal

   paucal number

   paucal and plural pronouns

3. (linguistics) Expressing a relatively small quantity or degree.

   Antonym: multal

   • 2002, Rodney Huddleston, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language:

     But too much can occur in the negative with a paucal meaning when there is no explicit or implicit infinitival complement: I didn't enjoy it too much is simply an informal alterant of I didn't enjoy it very much.

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “few”): multiple

名詞

paucal (uncountable)

1. (grammar) A language form referring to a few of something (three to around ten), as a small group of people; contrast singular, dual, trial, and plural.

派生語

• paucality

関連する語

• paucity

参考

• (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, quintal, paucal, plural

参照

• “paucal”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.