singulative

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to a grammatical form or construction that expresses the individuation of a single referent from a mass noun.

Noun

• A singulative form or construction.

Origin

• From French singulatif, from Latin singillatim ("singly", "one by one"), from singulus, from Proto-Italic *sem-g-lo-, a diminutive form derived from Proto-Indo-European *sem- ("one, together").