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comparandum

noun
/ˌkɒmpəˈɹændəm/

Etymology

From Latin comparandum, gerundive (neuter singular) of comparō.

  1. borrowed from comparandum

Definitions

  1. Something that is compared

    Something that is compared; the subject of a comparison.

    • This finding, together with the semantic content, allows us to identify a suitable comparandum, viz. the pronoun *etero-s 'other; one or the other of two'[…]
    • For the sake of evaluating the Uralic-Yukaghir comparisons in HDY, however, it is more illuminating to examine the frequency of various types of problems in the comparanda.
    • The third task is to choose a suitable illustrated comparandum of the appropriate variety from a published Early Cycladic excavation which is both well preserved and substantially complete.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for comparandum. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA