ger⋅und
–noun Grammar.
| 1. | (in certain languages, as Latin) a form regularly derived from a verb and functioning as a noun, having in Latin all case forms but the nominative, as Latin dicendī gen.,dicendō, dat., abl., etc., “saying.” |
| 2. | the English -ing form of a verb when functioning as a noun, as writing in Writing is easy. |
| 3. | a form similar to the Latin gerund in meaning or function. |
