APPELLATIVE, or Noun Appellative, in Grammar, a common Name; or a Name which belongs, or is applicable to all things of that kind. See NAME and NOUN.
Such are the Names, Man, Angel, Horse, Plant, Tree, etc. Appellatives stand opposed to proper Names, which belong only to Individuals; as Peter, Gabriel, Bucephalus. See PROPER NAME. The Word is formed of the Latin, appellare, to call; to name a thing.
