participial

From Latin participiālis, from participium (“participle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌpɑː(ɹ)tɪˈsɪpi.əl/

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participial (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Of, relating to, or being a participle.

participial (plural participials)

1. (grammar, dated) A non-finite verb.
   • 1867, Henry Noble Day, The art of English composition, page 151:

     § 280. A Participial is a derived form of the verb used not for asserting but for expressing either, —
     1. An object of thought; or,
     2. A modification of such an object.
     Participials, accordingly, are either, —
     1. Noun-participials; as, "To think is to act;" "Their sending the messacre was the cause of the trouble;" or,
     2. Adjective-participials, more commonly called Participles; as, "The advancing army;" "The expected messenger."

   • 1870, Raphael Kühner (original author), Samuel H. Taylor (English translator), An Elementary Grammar of the Greek Language, 20th ed., p. 75:

     […] the verb has two forms, which […] are called Participials, namely, (a) The Infinitv […] (b) The Participle […] .

   • 1889 March, P. Magnie Magnusson, “Participles and infinitives”, in School Education, volume 8, page 56:

     To have a short appellation, let us call participles and infinitives participials. Among all the myriads of words, a more skillful, many-sided and hard-working class than this could hardly be found, and still—such is the world's reward—they are strangers in a strange land forced to live with their aristocratic cousins, the "finite" verbs. For participials are not verbs in reality.

2. A participial word.

   Synonym: participle

• participialize
• participially

• participle

• “participial”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

participial (feminine participiale, masculine plural participiaux, feminine plural participiales)

1. participial

• participialement

• “participial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• Hyphenation: par‧ti‧ci‧pi‧al

participial m or f (plural participiais)

1. (grammar) participial (of or relating to a participle)

• “participial”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “participial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French participial, from Latin participialis.

participial m or n (feminine singular participială, masculine plural participiali, feminine/neuter plural participiale)

1. participial

• IPA^(key): /paɾtiθiˈpjal/ [paɾ.t̪i.θiˈpjal] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /paɾtisiˈpjal/ [paɾ.t̪i.siˈpjal] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: par‧ti‧ci‧pial

participial m or f (masculine and feminine plural participiales)

1. participial

• “participial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025