nonproper

adj

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Germanic *ne Proto-Indo-European *ís? Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos Proto-Germanic *ainaz Proto-Germanic *nainaz Proto-West Germanic *nain Old English nān Middle English non ▲ Old English nān Old English nān- Middle English non- English non- Latin propriusbor. Anglo-Norman proprebor. Middle English propre English proper English nonproper From non- + proper.

  1. derived from proprebor

Definitions

  1. Not proper.

    • a nonproper subset
    • a nonproper noun

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for nonproper. 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