participle
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
participle /pɑːˈtɪsɪp(ə)l/
▶noun Grammar a word formed from a verb (e.g. going, gone, being, been) and used as an adjective or noun (as in burnt toast, good breeding) or used to make compound verb forms (is going, has been).
– derivatives
participial /pɑːtiˈsɪpɪəl/ adjective,
participially adverb.
participial /pɑːtiˈsɪpɪəl/ adjective,
participially adverb.
– origin ME: from OFr., by-form of participe, from L. participium ‘sharing’.
'participle' also found in these Oxford entries:
ablative absolute
- awoken
- be
- became
- been
- begotten
- begun
- beheld
- belying
- bent
- besought
- bidden
- bitten
- blent
- blown
- blown
- borne
- bought
- boughten
- bound
- bounden
- bred
- broke
- broken
- brought
- brung
- built
- burnt
- carven
- caught
- chosen
- clad
- cleft
- cloven
- clung
- crept
- cried
- dangling participle
- dealt
- done
- drawn
- dried
- driven
- drunk
- dug
- dying
- -ed
- fallen
- fed
- felt
