Frequentative meaning

frē-kwĕn'tə-tĭv
Expressing or designating repeated action.
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A frequentative verb or verb form.
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Expressing frequent and repeated action.
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A frequentative verb.

“sparkle” is a frequentative of “spark”

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(grammar) Serving to express repetition of an action.

"Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack".

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(grammar) Refers to a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.
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Origin of frequentative

  • Latin frequentātīvus from frequentātus past participle of frequentāre to repeat from frequēns frequent- frequent
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Late Latin frequentativus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”). Morphologically as if frequent +‎ -ative. Akin to frequent.
    From Wiktionary

Frequentative Sentence Examples

  • tractare, to treat, handle, frequentative of trahere, tractus, to draw.

  • dictare, frequentative of dicere, to speak).

  • " him," " her," " the man," &c.), ldtok, " I see " (indefinite); the insertion of the causative, frequentative, diminutive and potential syllables after the root of the verb, e.g.

  • Some roots are reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there are traces of gemination of radicals.

  • In the verbs there are causative, intensive or frequentative, and reciprocal forms.

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