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mediopassive

adj

Etymology

From medio- + passive.

  1. derived from *peh₁-✻
  2. derived from passivus
  3. derived from passif
  4. inherited from passyf
  5. prefixed as mediopassive — “medio + passive”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to a voice of a transitive verb that is both middle voice and passive voice or…

    Pertaining to a voice of a transitive verb that is both middle voice and passive voice or reflexive and passive voice.

    • Until about 1900 the r-element attached to mediopassive endings was merely regarded as a marginal feature peculiar to Halo-Celtic; it was taken as evidence for Italo-Celtic because it was supposed to be an innovation of these two groups.

  2. A mediopassive construction

    A mediopassive construction; a phrase that uses the mediopassive voice.

    • A systematic study of mediopassive sell in the BNC (Figure 6) confirms that – at least for this verb – the constraint seems to hold: the vast majority of mediopassives with sell contain some kind of modification, namely 92.2%.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for mediopassive. 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