pronominal

American  

[proh-nom-uh-nl] / proʊˈnɒm ə nl /

adjective

1. Grammar. pertaining to, resembling, derived from, or containing a pronoun.

   “My” in “my book” is a pronominal adjective. “There” is a pronominal adverb.

2. Heraldry. noting the coat of arms on a quartered escutcheon: customarily occupying the first quarter and being the original coat of arms of the paternal line.

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noun

1. Grammar. a pronominal word.

pronominal British  

/ prəʊˈnɒmɪnəl /

adjective

1. relating to or playing the part of a pronoun

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Other Word Forms

• pronominally adverb

Etymology

Origin of pronominal

From the Late Latin word prōnōminālis, dating back to 1635–45. See pronoun, -al ¹

Example Sentences

Through perspectival shifts, pronominal slippage and shout-outs to cinema, poetry and of course music, Mercier allows the duo’s fears and displaced ambitions to turn into one another in revelatory, oneiric and, ultimately, disturbing ways.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2018

Most were necessitated by the demands of a metered line of poetry, and hence might be thought of more as a simple contraction than a pronominal phrase.

From Time • Jul. 6, 2015

Moods and tenses are less numerous but the number of verbal forms is increased by those in which the pronominal object is incorporated.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various

Formal derivation is accomplished by means of suffixing the elements of relations; pronominal signs are nevertheless not only suffixed, but also prefixed to verbs.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Webster, Wentworth

In other persons the coincidences are less complete, because the pronominal terminations have sometimes been modified, or, as in the third person singular, sever, dropped altogether as unnecessary.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max