perfect passive participle

English

Noun

perfect passive participle (plural perfect passive participles)

(grammar) A participle, prominent in some languages (e.g. Latin, Greek) but less common in English,[1] describing something that happened to a noun (the subject) in the past.

Translations

participle present in some languages

Greek: μετοχή παθητικού παρακειμένου f (metochí pathitikoú parakeiménou)
Welsh: rhangymeriad goddefol perffaith m

References

Insofar as it does exist in English, it usually matches the simple past form of a word, with rare exceptions such as arise.

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