ornative
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English
Etymology
From Latin ornō (“I equip, adorn”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ornative (plural ornatives)
- (grammar) A noun case that means "endowed with" or "supplied with".
- 2008, Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze, Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe, John Benjamins Publishing, page 412:
- The languages are ordered according to increasing number of sentences in which a comitative-like construction represents the ornative.
Translations
Noun case
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Adjective
ornative (not comparable)
- (grammar) Belonging or relating to such a case.
Translations
Belonging or relating to the ornative case
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Anagrams
Italian
Adjective
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