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exopassive

exopassive adjective: affecting the subject of the passive voice construction.

Adjective

exopassive (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Affecting the subject of the passive voice construction.
    • Exopassive verbs are viewed as directed towards the passive subject: 'to be beaten' naitake, 'to be fed' naimusa, 'to be given something' naitula.2002 February 10, Kala Tunu, “Tunu verbal system LONG”, in Conlang Mailing List, retrieved 14 Sep 2016
  2. (rare) Derived from a transitive verb, indicating the object affected.
    • An ‘exopassive’ of a transitive verb, according to Schuessler, may be a noun meaning "the thing that has been verb-ed", so that since *suk means ‘to lodge’, *sukh means ‘what is lodged in’—or, we may say, ‘a lodge’ (Schuessler 2007: 45).2011, Christopher Cullen, “Translating 宿 *sukh/xiu and 舍 *lhah/she—'lunar lodges', or just plain 'lodges'?”, in East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, volume 33, page 88
  3. (rare) Allowing exoelectron emission.
    • When powder materials with conductive exopassive admixtures (graphite) are used the double peak around 250°C may be convenient for the main dose read out and the double peak around 450°C for dose information storage only.1971, G. Holzapfel, E. Cryssou, “Exoelectronic Properties of Al₂O₃-Solids”, in Vagn Mejdahl, editor, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Luminescence Dosimetry, Risø, →ISBN

Noun

exopassive (plural exopassives)

  1. (rare) A verb with passive form, indicating the state of or action toward the subject of the passive voice construction.
    • [For endopassives,] unlike exopassives, the hypothetical subject of the simplex is grammatically and semantically not available2007, Axel Schuessler, ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, →ISBN, page 48

Forms of exopassive

pluralexopassives

Origin of exopassive

From exo- + passive.

Questions about exopassive

What does exopassive mean?
Exopassive means affecting the subject of the passive voice construction.
What part of speech is exopassive?
Exopassive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near exopassive in the dictionary

  1. exoosmotic
  2. exoparasite
  3. exoparasites
  4. exoparasitoid
  5. exoparasitoids
  6. exopassive
  7. exopassives
  8. exopathogen
  9. exopathogens
  10. exopause
  11. exopauses

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