abdicative

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English

Etymology 1

From abdicate +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/, /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adjective

abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)

  1. (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Latin abdicativus.

Noun

abdicative (plural abdicatives)

  1. (logic) A reasoning from the negative
    • 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:
      The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.

French

Adjective

abdicative

  1. feminine singular of abdicatif

Latin

Etymology 1

From abdicatīvus (“negative”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

Adverb

abdicātīvē (not comparable)

  1. negatively

Etymology 2

Adjective

abdicātīve

  1. vocative masculine singular of abdicātīvus

References

  • “abdicative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • abdicative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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