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Supplement vs Suppletion - What's the difference?

supplement | suppletion |

As nouns the difference between supplement and suppletion

is that supplement is supplement while suppletion is the supplying of something lacking.

supplement

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.
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  • An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.
  • An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.
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  • *:"Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements , refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir! "
  • (lb) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
  • A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.

    • Verb

  • To provide or make a supplement to something.

    • Synonyms

    * eke out

    suppletion

    English

    (wikipedia suppletion)

    Noun

    (-)
  • The supplying of something lacking.
  • (grammar) The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking, e.g. using “to be able” as the infinitive of “can”, or “better” as the comparative of “good”.
  • (grammar) More loosely, use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words which may not share the same lexical category, such as father/paternal or cow/bovine.

    • Usage notes

    Strictly speaking, (suppletion) in linguistics refers only to inflection, such as (good)/(better), which are both adjectives, and this is the most frequent use. It is also used in the looser sense of semantic relations without etymological relations (or with distant etymological relations) such as (father)/(paternal), where these are noun/adjective.Paul Georg Meyer (1997) Coming to know: studies in the lexical semantics and pragmatics of academic English,'' p. 130: "Although many linguists have referred to [collateral adjectives] (paternal, vernal) as 'suppletive' adjectives with respect to their base nouns (father, spring), the nature of ..."''Aspects of the theory of morphology, by David Beck, p. 461 However, this latter use is significantly less common and may be considered incorrect.

    Related terms

    * (l)

    See also

    * (l)

    References

    English words suffixed with -ion