adj
Meaning 1
Exalted; feeling elation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, rare
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Standard Lemma guide
elative
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Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ɪˈleɪtɪv/
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rhymes with -eɪtɪv
noun
Meaning 2
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.”
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The elative of كَبِير (kabīr, “big”) is أَكْبَر (ʔakbar, “bigger/biggest, greater/greatest”).
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noun
Meaning 3
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".
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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History
Etymology
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.
From Latin ēlātus, perfect past participle of efferō (“to carry out or away”)
Across languages
Translations
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: اِسْم تَفْضِيل (ism tafḍīl) — elative degree of an adjective
- Czech: elativ — elative degree of an adjective
- Finnish: elatiivi — elative degree of an adjective
- French: élatif — elative degree of an adjective
- Galician: elativo — elative degree of an adjective
- German: elativisch — elative degree of an adjective
- Latin: ēlātīvus — elative degree of an adjective
- Polish: elativus — elative degree of an adjective
- Russian: элати́в (elatív) — elative degree of an adjective
- Russian: эляти́в (eljatív) — elative degree of an adjective
- Spanish: elativo — elative degree of an adjective
- Czech: elativ — elative case of a noun
- Estonian: seestütlev — elative case of a noun
- Estonian: elatiiv — elative case of a noun
- Finnish: elatiivi — elative case of a noun
- Finnish: sisäeronto — elative case of a noun
- French: élatif — elative case of a noun
- German: Elativ — elative case of a noun
- Hungarian: elativus — elative case of a noun
- Japanese: 出格 (shukkaku) — elative case of a noun
- Polish: elativus — elative case of a noun
- Portuguese: elativo — elative case of a noun
- Russian: элати́в (elatív) — elative case of a noun
- Russian: эляти́в (eljatív) — elative case of a noun
- Spanish: caso elativo — elative case of a noun
- Ukrainian: елати́в (elatýv) — elative case of a noun
- Ukrainian: еляти́в (eljatýv) — elative case of a noun