neuter voice

plural neuter voices

1. uncommonuncountableusuallygrammarA voice which is neither active nor passive (nor middle voice); the voice assigned to a copulative verb.

   Such verbs really have no voice, but for convenience we may say they are in the neuter voice.

   1898, Missouri School Journal - Volume 15, page 150

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   He uſes the word UNUM, in the neuter voice; which does not belong to a ſingle peſson, but to an (u) unity of perſons.

   1785, George Travis, Letters to Edward Gibbon, Esq - Author of the History of the Decline, and Fall, of the Roman Empire, page 71

   These likewise terminate in ся, and without the particle they are not used. They have the meaning of verbs of either the active or neuter voice.

   1882, Ardalīon Ivanov, A. Ivánoff's Russian Grammar (16th Ed.-145th Thousand), page 53

   We have the Neuter Voice, or Passive of the Intransitive, also āchia (20/16, 20/25), jāiā (for jāiă?: 16/14), mohia (51/23); ho=bhūyate (12/29).

   1953, Dāmodaranaṇḍita, Uktivyaktiprakaraṇa, page 58

   ... the neuter voice, we have in verbs of adjectival nature the distinction of inchoative and static forms, such as "to be yellow (static, descriptive)" and "to become yellow (inchoative)"

   1965, American Anthropological Association, et. al. (contributors), International Journal of American Linguistics - Volumes 7-8, page 124

   ... the laughter, a voice without gender, without inflection, a neuter voice: "I wish I may, I wish I might.

   1973, Mercury Press (publisher), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Volume 45, page 95