pronominal

American  

[proh-nom-uh-nl] / proʊˈnɒm ə nl /

adjective

1. Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun.

   “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.

2. Heraldry. noting the coat of arms on a quartered escutcheon: customarily occupying the first quarter and being the original coat of arms of the paternal line.

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noun

1. Grammar. a pronominal word.

pronominal British  

/ prəʊˈnɒmɪnəl /

adjective

1. relating to or playing the part of a pronoun

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Other Word Forms

• pronominally
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of pronominal

From the Late Latin word prōnōminālis, dating back to 1635–45. See pronoun, -al ¹

Example Sentences

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pronominal

Through perspectival shifts, pronominal slippage and shout-outs to cinema, poetry and of course music, Mercier allows the duo’s fears and displaced ambitions to turn into one another in revelatory, oneiric and, ultimately, disturbing ways.

From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2018

Most were necessitated by the demands of a metered line of poetry, and hence might be thought of more as a simple contraction than a pronominal phrase.

From Time ● Jul. 6, 2015

So far as I have been able to ascertain them the most important features characteristic of the Dakotan languages generally are the following: I. Three pronominal prefixes to verbs, i, o and wa.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

This sya is the same pronominal base as the adjective termination tya, only that the former takes no sign for the gender, like the adjective.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller

They inquire with grim facetiousness, and terrific emphasis on the pronominal adjectives, "Is this what the people in this part of the world call a steamboat?"

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 by Various