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- Latin · derived fromadpositio
- English todayadposition
From ad- + position, from Latin adpositio, from adpositum, past participle of adponere, an alternative form of apponere (“to put near”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
adposition
ad·po·si·tionToday it means: An element that combines syntactically with a phrase and indicates how that phrase should be interpreted in the surrounding context; a preposition or postposition. Full definition →
Latin adpositio