different between cohortative vs hortative

English

Adjective

cohortative (not comparable)

1. (grammar, of a verb) Inflected to express plea, insistence, imploring, self-encouragement, wish, desire, intent, command, purpose, or consequence.
2. Encouraging.

Usage notes

The cohortative mood is similar to the jussive mood, except that it only applies to verbs in the first person. Although the cohortative mood is absent from English, it is present in Hebrew.

Noun

cohortative (plural cohortatives)

1. (grammar) The cohortative mood.

English

Etymology

From Latin hort?t?vus, from hortor (“I exhort”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h??t?t?v/
• (US) IPA: /?h???t?t?v/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t?t?v

Adjective

hortative (comparative more hortative, superlative most hortative)

1. (comparable) Urging, exhorting, or encouraging.
   • 1854, "The Preaching Required by the Times" (Editorial), The National Magazine, New York, vol. 4, no. 1 (Jan.), pp. 79-80.

     The ministration of these oracles from the pulpit is to be reformed from any of its factitious peculiarities, and made again what it was among the apostles and their immediate successors—earnest, simple, powerful address—hortative talk, if we may so call it.

2. (grammar, not comparable) Of a mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.

Synonyms

• (giving strong encouragement): hortatory, supportive
• (of a mood of a verb): cohortative, exhortative, hortatory

Translations

Noun

hortative (plural hortatives)

1. (grammar) A mood or class of imperative subjunctive moods of a verb for giving strong encouragement.

Synonyms

• (mood of an imperative verb): cohortative, exhortative

Related terms

• cohortative
• exhortative
• hortatory

See also

• jussive