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Allative case — (abbreviated ALL, from Latin allāt , afferre to bring to ) is a type of the locative cases used in several languages. The term allative is generally used for the lative case in the majority of languages which do not make finer… … Wikipedia
allative — I. ˈaləd.iv adjective Etymology: Latin allatus carried to (suppletive past participle of afferre to carry to; allatus from ad + latus, suppletive past participle of ferre to bear) + English ive more at bear, tolerate of a grammatical case … Useful english dictionary
allative — 1. adjective of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards a place 2. noun the allative case, or a word in that case … Wiktionary
allative — /al euh tiv/, Gram. adj. 1. noting a case, as in Finnish, whose distinctive function is to indicate place to or toward which. n. 2. the allative case. [1860 65; < L allat(us) (al AL + latus suppletive ptp. of ferre to bring; cf. ALLEY1) + IVE] *… … Universalium
Case government — Government is a linguistic term for a kind of influence that one grammatical element exerts on another, and the canonical example of government is case government, when a verb or preposition is said to govern the grammatical case on its noun… … Wikipedia
allative — (n.) grammatical case expressing motion towards, 1860, from L. allatus brought to, used as pp. of adferre, affere to bring to, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + latus borne, carried (see OBLATE (Cf. oblate) (n.)) … Etymology dictionary
case — Synonyms and related words: Bible truth, Smyth sewing, abessive, ablative, absolute fact, accepted fact, accusative, action, actual fact, adessive, admitted fact, afghan, alien, allative, ammunition box, anyhow, anyway, apoplectic, approximative … Moby Thesaurus
allative — n. & a. Grammar, (case) expressing motion towards … Dictionary of difficult words
Ablative case — In linguistics, ablative case (abbreviated ABL) is a name given to cases in various languages whose common characteristic is that they mark motion away from something, though the details in each language may differ. The name ablative is derived… … Wikipedia
Illative case — in the Finno Ugric languages= Illative (from Latin illatus brought in ) is, in the Finnish language, Estonian language and the Hungarian language, the third of the locative cases with the basic meaning of into (the inside of) .An example from… … Wikipedia
