attributive noun

English

Noun

attributive noun (plural attributive nouns)

1. (grammar) Synonym of noun adjunct (“a noun that modifies another noun attributively”)

   Synonyms: noun adjunct, noun modifier, noun premodifier, qualifying noun, apposite noun

2. (grammar, when referring to a language other than English) A noun denoting bearer of a quality or an attribute of a subject, in reference to the lexical morpheme from which it is derived.

Translations

a noun that modifies another noun attributively

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歸屬名詞／归属名词 (guīshǔ míngcí)

• Finnish: substantiivimäärite, substantiivimääre
• French: nom épithète (fr) m
• Hungarian: főnévi jelző
• Russian: определи́тельное существи́тельное n (opredelítelʹnoje suščestvítelʹnoje), атрибути́вное существи́тельное n (atributívnoje suščestvítelʹnoje)
• Turkish: tamlayan (tr)