present participle vs. gerund

Grammar. a participle, in English having the suffix -ing, that expresses repetition or duration of an activity or event: used as an adjective, as in the growing weeds and the setting sun, and also in forming progressive verb constructions, as in The weeds are growing and The sun was setting.

(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 �徱����Ի�ī genitive, �徱����Ի�ō dative, ablative, etc., “saying.” gerundive ( def 1 ).

the English -ing form of a verb when functioning as a noun, as writing in Writing is easy.

a form similar to the Latin gerund in meaning or function.