presentative

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

• Received-Pronunciation: /pɹɪˈzɛntətɪv/
  Play
• Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  Play
• General-American: /pɹəˈzɛn(t)ətɪv/
  Play
• General-American: /pri-/
  Play
• General-American: [-ɾɪv]
  Play

The adjective is derived from Late Latin praesentativus (“that presents for consideration”) + English -ive (suffix signifying belonging or relating to, of the nature of, serving to, or tending to, forming adjectives). Praesentativus is from Latin praesentātus (“presented, exhibited, or shown”) + -īvus (suffix forming adjectives); while praesentātus is the perfect passive participle of praesentō (“to present, exhibit, or show”), from praesēns (“at hand, present; existing; immediate; prompt; propitious; (grammar) present”) (the present active participle of praesum (“to be before something; to be in charge of; to command, lead; to preside or rule over”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before, in front; in charge’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh2- (“before; in front”)) + sum (“to be, exist, have”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h1es- (“to be”))) + -tō (frequentative suffix). The English word is analysable as present + -ative. The noun sense (“construct that serves to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor”) is derived from adjective sense 3 (“serving to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor”).

1 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: présentatif — construct that serves to present something, or draw it to the attention of the interlocutor