thematic

comparative more thematic · superlative most thematic

1. Relating to or having a theme (“subject”) or a topic.

   He had a thematic collection of postage stamps with flags on them (where (UK) thematic collection is equivalent to (US) topical collection)

2. entertainmentRelating to a melodic subject.
3. Indo European studiesgrammarOf a word stem, ending in a vowel that appears in or otherwise influences the noun or verb's inflection.

   A considerable number of derived nominals, especially thematic nouns, also exhibited o-grade roots.

   2006, Donald Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 12

4. historyOf or relating to a theme (“subdivision of the Byzantine empire”).

plural thematics

1. A postage stamp that is part of a thematic collection.
2. human sciencesA case that indicates the (usually inanimate) party which is a participant to the verbal predicate where that participant does not undergo any tangible change of state.

   The nine transrelative cases are the thematic, instrumental, absolutive, affective, stimulative, effectuative, ergative, dative, and inducive. Following are explanations of the function and usage of each case. Examples of these cases in use are provided in Sec. 4.2.10 below.

   2023, John Quijada, Grammar of The New Ithkuil

   Synonyms: THM