CATEGOREMATIC


Meaning of CATEGOREMATIC in English

|kad.əˌgȯrə|mad.ik adjective

Etymology: French catégorématique, from Greek katēgorēmat-, katēgorēma predicate (from katēgorein to predicate) + French -ique -ic — more at category

: capable of standing alone as the subject or predicate of a logical proposition : expressing a complete substantive meaning

man is a categorematic word

— opposed to syncategorematic

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