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Equative
Meaning
Noun
●
In Grammar:
A
construction
showing
an
equal
quality. In English, this is
normally
formed
using as. For
example
, the
equative
of
happy
is as
happy
as.
●
In Grammar:
A
word
in the
equative
form.
●
In Grammar:
A
grammatical case
in certain
languages
, including Ossetic and Sumerian, that
indicates
something
is like
something else
. English
equivalents
include he was the same
age
as her and he
looks like
him.
Adj
●
In Grammar:
Of,
pertaining
to, or being an equative.
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Origin
equative
English
-ive
English
-if
Anglo-Norman
-ivus
Latin
equate
English
aequātus
Latin
Sourced from
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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