// n. A traditional name for the -ing form of a verb in English when it serves as a verbal noun, as in Swimming is good exercise, Lisa’s going topless upset her father and I enjoy watching cricket, or for a verbal noun in any language. The...

1 Impersonally used verbal noun in Latin which replaces the lacking case inflection of the infinitive. Formally the gerund corresponds to a future passive participle; semantically it indicates the action in and of itself: ars libros recte legendi...

In linguistics, “gerund” is a term used to refer to various non-finite verb forms in various...