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Substantive as a word for "noun"?

Starting with old Latin grammars, many European languages use some form
of the word substantive as the basic term for noun. Nouns in the
dictionaries of such languages are demarked by the abbreviation "s"
instead of "n", which may be used for proper nouns instead. This
corresponds to those grammars in which nouns and adjectives phase into
each other in more areas than, for example, the English term predicate
adjective entails. In French and Spanish, for example, adjectives
frequently act as nouns referring to people who have the characteristics
of the adjective. An example in English is:

The poor you have always with you. 

Similarly, an adjective can also be used for a whole group or
organization of people:

The Socialist International. 

Hence, these words are substantives that are usually adjectives in
English.

 

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