Meaning

1 senses
  1. A type of universal that defines a particular sort of object

Origin

From sort + -al. Coined by John Locke in 1690 in his An Essay Concerning Human Understandi

From sort + -al. Coined by John Locke in 1690 in his An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

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Forms

plural: sortals
Singularsortal
Pluralsortals

regular

Word family

1 related words
Derivednonsortal

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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