substituend
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin substituendus; compare substituendum.
Pronunciation
Noun
substituend (plural substituends)
- (logic, linguistics) A substitute; something that substitutes for another.
- 1998, Pranab Kumar Sen, Logic, Identity, and Consistency (Studies in Philosophical and Non-Standard Logic; II)[2], Allied Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:
- Note that a variable is a substituend of a variable only in a vacuous sense , and so we shall be ignoring them while speaking of the substituends of a given variable.
- (linguistics) A substituendum; something to be substituted or replaced.
- 1989 [c. 450 BCE], Pāṇini, translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Aṣṭādhyāyī[4], page 22:
- […] but since the substitute y is not treated like the substituend vowel, the option will not prevail.
- 1994, Pieter C. Verhagen, “Structure and Method”, in A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet[5], volume II, Brill, page 227:
- The substituend item bhis is one of the twenty-one case suffixes (sUP or vibhakti) introduced as a set in Pāṇ. 4.1.2.
- 2012 December 6 [1979], Johannes Bronkhorst, Tradition and Argument in Classical Indian Linguistics[6], Springer Netherlands, →ISBN, page 98:
- But those (same) meanings belong to the substitutes because of the rule accepted in the Bhāṣya that only that is a substitute which is capable of expressing the meaning of the substituend.