substituendum

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin substituendum; compare substituend.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsʌbstɪt͡ʃuˈɛndəm/, /ˌsʌbstɪtjuˈɛndəm/

Noun

substituendum (plural substituenda)

1. (linguistics) Something to be substituted or replaced.
   • 1975, James Stanton Bare, “Methodological Considerations: The Pāṇinian Devices of Homogeneous Represenation and Āntaratamya”, in Phonetics and phonology in Pāṇini: the system of features implicit in the Aṣṭādhyāyī‎^[1], page 103:

     For a given substituendum, there is usually only one clearcut choice for substitute.

   • 1989 [c. 450 BCE], Pāṇini, translated by Sumitra M. Katre, Aṣṭādhyāyī‎^[2], page 19:

     The sixth (ṣaṣthī́) sUP triplet is used to indicate that the expression after which it is introduced is the substituendum (sthāné-yogā).

   • 2014 July 15, Sylvia Jaki, Phraseological Substitutions in Newspaper Headlines: “More Than Meats the Eye”‎^[3], John Benjamins, →ISBN, page 188:

     In (6.16) and (6.17), the difference between substituens and substituendum is very pronounced […]

Latin

Participle

substituendum

1. inflection of substituendus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular