INTERJEC'TION, Lat. _interjectio_, from _inter_ and _jacere_, to throw
between: _a word which expresses an emotion, but which does not enter into
the construction of the sentence_.
INTRAN'SITIVE (verb), Lat. _intransitivus_ = _in_, not, and _transitivus_,
from _trans_ and _ire_, _itum_, to go beyond: _a verb that denotes a state
or condition, or an action not terminating on an object_.
MAS'CULINE (gender), Lat. _masculus_, male: _the gender of a noun
describing a person of the male sex_.
MODE. See _mood_.
MOOD, Lat. _modus_, through Fr. _mode_, manner: _a grammatical form
denoting the style of predication_.
NEU'TER (gender), Lat. _neuter_, neither: _the gender of a noun denoting an
object without life_.
NOM'INATIVE (case), Lat. _nominativus_, from _nomen_, a name: _that form
which a noun has when it is the subject of a verb_.
NOUN, Lat. _nomen_, a name, through Fr. _nom_: _a name-word, the name of
anything_.
NUM'BER, Lat. _numerus_, through Fr. _nombre_, number: _a grammatical form
expressing one or more than one of the objects named by a noun or pronoun_.
OB'JECT, Lat. _ob_ and _jacere_, to set before: _that toward which an
activity is directed or is considered to be directed_.
OBJEC'TIVE (case), Lat. _objectivus_, from _ob_ and _jacere_: _the case
which follows a transitive verb or a preposition_.
PARSE, Lat. _pars_, a part: _to point out the several parts of speech in a
sentence and their relation to one another_.
PAR'TICIPLE, Lat.
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