semelfactive

That denotes a momentary or punctiliar action.

Adjective

  1. That denotes a momentary or punctiliar action.

    Synonyms: momentane momentary instantaneous punctual nondurational

    Coordinate Terms: continuative durative experiential frequentative habitual imperfective iterative

Origin

Learned borrowing from New Latin semelfactīvus, from to Latin semel (“once, a single time”) + factum (“event, occurrence”) + adjectival suffix -īvus.

Derived

semelfactively semelfactiveness semelfactivity

Noun

  1. The semelfactive aspect.

Forms

semelfactives