Sentence examples for appellative noun from inspiring English sources
This was the ability of a univocal appellative noun to name different things.
L. L. 8, 45; 50 Müll.: vocabula, appellative nouns (as vir, mulier), ib.
In some languages, a name is differentiated from an appellative (common noun) by formal means.
The distinction between names and appellatives (common nouns) is generally clear: names are used in individual reference, and appellatives can be used in reference to all members of a class or to any number of them (e.g., river, hill, man, girl, car, table, virtue, and so on).
A general appellative (i.e., a common noun) capable of being used in reference to a whole class of entities can also be used with an individual reference.
It is in this tradition that the term proper noun, or proper name, is used for a name, and noun, general noun, or common noun is used for an appellative.
Some names seem to belong more to the category of appellatives than to the category of names like Colorado in "the Colorado River". For example, names like Big River, Red River, Stony Brook, and Cedar Hill may have their origin in a specific use of a general noun.
