sublative
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English
Etymology
sub down (to) latus carry. Perfect passive participle of sufferō (“carry down”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sublative (uncountable)
- (grammar) A case of nouns in Finno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally onto the surface of something (e.g. climb onto a tree), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university).
Translations
a case of nouns used to express the destination of movement
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Adjective
sublative (comparative more sublative, superlative most sublative)
- (grammar) Of or relating to the sublative case.
- Having power, or tending, to take away.
- 1890, George Thibaut, transl., The Vedānta sūtras:
- Cessation dependent on a sublative act of the mind