Elative Definition

ĕlə-tĭv

adjective

Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating motion out of a place in some languages, as in Finnish hotellista, “out of the hotel.”

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noun

The elative case.

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A word or form in the elative case.

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(grammar) In Semitic languages, the “adjective of superiority." In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest", “supreme."

The elative of كبير (kabí:r, “big") is أكبر (ákbar, “bigger/biggest, greater/greatest").

Wiktionary

(grammar) In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of," as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból (“out of the house"). Its opposite is the illative case (“into"). In Finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in English is often conveyed by the word "about".

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Other Word Forms of Elative

Noun

Singular:

elative

Plural:

elatives

Origin of Elative

New Latin ēlātīvus from Latin ēlātus past participle of efferre to bring out elate –ive

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Latin elatum, past participle of effero (“to carry out or away")

From Wiktionary
From Latin elatus (“exalted, lofty, high") +"Ž -ive

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