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elative¹
- /ɪˈleɪtɪv/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪtɪv
Where it comes from
From Latin ēlātus (“exalted, lofty, high”) + -ive. Possibly borrowed from German, which has produced a great deal of pioneering Semitist literature, and where Elativ is a common term for absolute superlative in all languages.
noun elatives
- In Semitic languages, the “adjective degree of superiority”. In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.” The elative of كَبِير (kabīr, “big”) is أَكْبَر (ʔakbar, “bigger/biggest, greater/greatest”).
adjective
- Exalted; feeling elation. And so the fleas, and flies in their degree, / By their attracted moyst humiditie, / Drawne from a certaine vertue elatiue, / Whence raine his generation doth deriue: / Seeke more than their accustom'd nutriment.
elative²
- /ɪˈleɪtɪv/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪtɪv
Where it comes from
From Latin ēlātus, perfect past participle of efferō (“to carry out or away”)
noun elatives
- In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” or “from” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból (“out of the house”). Its opposite is the illative case (“into”). In Finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in English is often conveyed by the word "about".
Translations
Every language
noun elative degree of an adjective
| Español | elativo |
|---|---|
| Français | élatif |
| Deutsch | elativisch |
| Русский | элати́в elatív, эляти́в eljatív |
| العربية | اِسْم تَفْضِيل ism tafḍīl |
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