| adverb |
| Definition - A word that modifies the meaning of verbs, adjectives (including numbers), and other adverbs — but not nouns. |
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Example - (1) He walked slowly. (2) His ideas are really strange. |
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Etymology - The word derives from the Latin adverbium, that which is added to a verb (from Latin ad, to + verbum, word). Note: The Latin term was invented by Flavius Sosipater Charisius who coined it to translate the Greek word epirrhema, adverb (from Greek epi, upon + rhema, verb). |
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Oxford English Dictionary - The term's first citation is from 1530: "It is harde to a lerner to discerne the difference bytwene an adverbe and the other partes of spetche." (Jehan Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse, 800 ) |