Standard Lemma guide
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Sound
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adj
Of or relating to the sublative case.
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adj
Having power, or tending, to take away.
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noun
A case of nouns in Finno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally onto the surface of something (e.g. climb onto a tree), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university, or about (a subject)).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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History
Borrowed from New Latin sublātīvus, from tollere (“to lift up, to elevate; to abolish”) + -īvus.
Across languages
4 source translations are retained for this English entry.
