Added 9 October 2026
prepositional
adjective
Latin root: praepositiō Wiktionary
adjective Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about prepositional at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a preposition.
- Of the prepositional case.
noun
- The prepositional case.
Origin
From Latin praepositiō (“a setting before, a preposition”), a calque of Ancient Greek πρόθεσις (próthesis, “a setting before, preposition (grammar)”) + -al.
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