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The supplying of something lacking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”, or “went” as the simple past of “go”.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine, normally referred to as collateral adjectives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
From German Suppletivwesen, from Latin supplēre (“to supply”), perfect stem supplet-, + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
44 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Polish:
uzupełnienie
— the supplying of something lacking
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Russian:
пополне́ние
(popolnénije)
— the supplying of something lacking
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Russian:
восполне́ние
(vospolnénije)
— the supplying of something lacking
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Spanish:
supleción
— the supplying of something lacking
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Spanish:
suplemento
— the supplying of something lacking
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Welsh:
cyflenwad
— the supplying of something lacking
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Belarusian:
суплетыві́зм
(supljetyvízm)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Catalan:
supleció
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Chinese Mandarin:
異干互補 /异干互补
(yìgànhùbǔ)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Chinese Mandarin:
異干法
(yìgànfǎ)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Chinese Mandarin:
補充法 /补充法
(bǔchōngfǎ)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Dutch:
suppletie
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Finnish:
suppleetio
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Finnish:
suppletivismi
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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French:
supplétion
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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French:
supplétisme
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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German:
Suppletion
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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German:
Suppletivismus
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Hungarian:
szuppletivizmus
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Hungarian:
alakkiegészülés
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Hungarian:
tőalakpótlás
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Hungarian:
tőcsere
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Hungarian:
tőváltás
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Irish:
ilfhréamhachas
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Italian:
suppletivismo
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Japanese:
補充形
(hojūkei)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Korean:
보충법
(bochungbeop)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Kyrgyz:
супплетивизм
(suppletivizm)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Latvian:
supletīvisms
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Lithuanian:
supletyvizmas
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Norwegian Bokmål:
suppletivisme
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
suppletivisme
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Polish:
supletywizm
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Portuguese:
supletismo
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Romanian:
supletivism
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Russian:
супплетиви́зм
(suppletivízm)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Russian:
супплети́вность
(suppletívnostʹ)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Serbo-Croatian:
суплетивизам
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Serbo-Croatian:
supletivizam
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Spanish:
supletismo
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Spanish:
supleción
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Spanish:
suplencia
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Tamil:
மாற்றுச்சொல்
(māṟṟuccol)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
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Ukrainian:
суплетивізм
(supletyvizm)
— (grammar) the use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking
