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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case expressing motion toward a place, as Finnish stadionille "to the stadium.”
- n. The allative case.
- n. A word in the allative case.
Wiktionary
- adj. grammar of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards a place
- n. grammar the allative case, or a word in that case.
Etymologies
- New Latin allātīvus, from Latin allātus, past participle of afferre, to bring toward : ad-, ad- + lātus, carried. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Rare Words - A
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
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a case of cases
evoking a kind of heavy chest of drawers, for me. Latin (and German) at 11; now Finnish, and a fascination for what else is out there.
Entering all these, I did have to struggle not t...nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, ablative, vocative, locative, partitive, inessive, elative, illative, adessive and 62 more...
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bearing words
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Whatever the Case May Be...
Various grammatical cases.
ablative, accusative, vocative, dative, nominative, genitive, locative, abessive, absolutive, multiplicative, addirective, caritive and 49 more...
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Finnish locative cases
ablative, allative, adessive, illative, elative, inessive, translative, essive, excessive
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