exessive

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exessive

/ɪkˈsɛsɪv/

Sounds like excessive · Rhymes with -ɛsɪv

Where it comes from

From ex- (“out of”) + essive. According to linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso, the case was originally called the excessive (derived from Latin excessus (“departure”)), which would make the spelling exessive a case of folk etymology.

adjective

not comparable Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.

noun exessives

The exessive case, or a word in that case.

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@misc{exessive_2026,
  title = {exessive},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/exessive},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}