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Elative
Meaning
Noun
●
In Semitic linguistics:
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.”
●
In Grammar:
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".
Adj
●
Exalted;
feeling
elation.
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Origin
elative
English
elatum
Latin
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Etym
Rhymes
Dative
Native
Sative
Lative
Flative
Stative
Elative
Illative
Creative
Dilative
Optative
Rotative
Innative
Mutative
Equative
Placative
Sublative
Collative
Prolative
Inflative
Uncreative
Non-Native
Constative
Castrative
Miscreative
Subcreative
Translative
Precreative
Anticreative
Induplicative
Alpha Privative
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