Definitions
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- noun grammar A grammatical construction in which a word’s
inflexion is determined by thesemantics of the word or words with which it associates, incontravention of what is required bygrammar .
Etymologies
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From modern Latin cōnstrūctiō ("[grammatical] construction") + ad ("toward, [according] to") + sēnsum (accusative singular of sēnsus, abstractly “sense”, “notion”, “signification”): "grammatical construction according to [the] sense".
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mialuthien commented on the word constructio ad sensum
See synesis.
July 23, 2008