<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>(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 genitive, dicendō dative, ablative, etc., “saying.”</li><li>gerundive (def 1)</li><li>the English -ing form of a verb when functioning as a noun, as writing in "Writing is easy."</li><li>a form similar to the Latin gerund in meaning or function.</li></ul>