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Mereological verb/adjectives

A list of 26 words by jjon.

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A class of words I'm interested in. It'll be a short list I think, but I think I've not thought of them all. I like that they're used both as adjectives and as verbs; and that they speak to the relationship of parts to each other, or to wholes.

The 'ate' endings of all of those I've thought of so far are derived from perfect passive participle suffixes of first conjugation verbs in Latin, -ātus, -āta, and -ātum, but not all such words are members of the class; moreover, I'm still looking for candidates that do not have such suffixes.

The class that interests me is those words which are often used as either verb or adjective, and preferably when both have roughly the same sense: like imbricate, for example. Tiles on a roof can be said to be imbricate (adj.), but you can also imbricate (verb) panels such that they overlap.

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  • jjon commented on the list topological-verb-adjectives

    emic not really a member of this 'class' of words, but a useful neologism to refer to things that have significance specifically within a context whether mereological or otherwise.

    August 17, 2015

  • ruzuzu commented on the list topological-verb-adjectives

    What a fun list!

    July 27, 2022

  • tankhughes commented on the list topological-verb-adjectives

    I didn't know about that Latin participle form! Now I want to go to onelook.com and type *ate and see what else pops up for this list.

    July 27, 2022

  • jjon commented on the list topological-verb-adjectives

    Somewhere along the line, for the purposes of generating a URL I suppose, wordnik insisted on turning my title for this list into "topological-verb-adjectives"; which, might be a cool list, but isn't this one.

    October 25, 2022