determinans

See also: determináns and déterminans

English

Etymology

From Latin dētermināns, present active participle of dēterminō (“fix the limits of something”), from dē + terminō (“bound, limit”).

Noun

determinans

1. (grammar) A modifier; a word that modifies another word.

   In the noun phrase “noun phrase”, “noun” is the determinans and “phrase” is the determinatum.

Related terms

• determinatum

Translations

Translations

German: (in compound words) Bestimmungswort (de), Beysatz, Determinans (de) Latin: (in compound words) adjunctum

See also

• composition
• compound word, compound

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of dēterminō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [deːˈtɛr.mɪ.nãːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [deˈtɛr.mi.nans]

Participle

dētermināns (genitive dēterminantis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. limiting, bounding, confining
2. determining, deciding, fixing
3. designating

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	dētermināns			dēterminantēs	dēterminantia
genitive	dēterminantis			dēterminantium
dative	dēterminantī			dēterminantibus
accusative	dēterminantem	dētermināns		dēterminantēs dēterminantīs	dēterminantia
ablative	dēterminante dēterminantī1			dēterminantibus
vocative	dētermināns			dēterminantēs	dēterminantia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Noun

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Determinans

Wikipedia ^la

dētermināns m (genitive dēterminantis); third declension

1. (New Latin, mathematics) determinant
   • 1801, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, section 5, paragraph 161:

     ...numerum ... quem dēterminantem appellābimus.

     ...a number ... which we shall call the determinant.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

	singular	plural
nominative	dētermināns	dēterminantēs
genitive	dēterminantis	dēterminantium
dative	dēterminantī	dēterminantibus
accusative	dēterminantem	dēterminantēs dēterminantīs
ablative	dēterminante	dēterminantibus
vocative	dētermināns	dēterminantēs

Related terms

• dēterminō
• mātrix

Descendants

• Catalan: determinant
• English: determinant
• French: déterminant
• German: Determinante
• Italian: determinante
• Portuguese: determinante
• Russian: детерминант (determinant)
• Spanish: determinante

References

• “determinans”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “determinans”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.