Appellative
a descriptive name or designation, as bald in charles the bald.
a common noun.
designative; descriptive.
tending toward or serving for the -ssigning of names:
the appellative function of some primitive rites.
pertaining to a common noun.
contemporary examples
in the curious case of elle fanning, however, the appellative is entirely deserved.
elle fanning on ‘ginger & rosa,’ her fashion sense, crush on ryan gosling, and more marlow stern march 11, 2013
historical examples
such, however, is not the case, george being his only christian appellative.
hair-breadth escapes h.c. adams
the appellative “elias” is in fact both a personal name and a t-tle.
jesus the christ james edward talmage
the only appellative i find, (if it can be called one), is the ang.-sax.
the river-names of europe robert ferguson
at the sound of the tender russian appellative she turned to me quickly.
marie tarnowska annie vivanti
that ayogriha is the name of the prince, not an appellative, appears from the pli recensions.
the gtakaml rya sra
we must remember that nearly all grecian proper names had some meaning: being compounds or derivatives from appellative nouns.
plato and the other companions of sokrates, 3rd ed. volume iii (of 4) george grote
for this name of the place is not appellative or descriptive, as our translation renders it, “paradise of pleasure.”
commentary on genesis, vol. i martin luther
the alphabet is general property, and everyone has the right to use it for the creation of a word forming an appellative sound.
the memoires of casanova, complete jacques casanova de seingalt
in the name of another lake in russia, the karduanskoi-ilmen, it seems to occur as an appellative.
the river-names of europe robert ferguson
noun
an identifying name or t-tle; appellation
(grammar) another word for common noun
adjective
of or relating to a name or t-tle
(of a proper noun) used as a common noun
adj.
mid-15c., from latin appellativus, from appellat-, past participle stem of appellare (see appeal). as a noun, attested from 1590s.
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