different between lative vs elative

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French latif.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?t?v

Noun

lative (uncountable)

1. (grammar) A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.

Related terms

• locative, separative: other general local cases

Translations

Anagrams

• Telavi, Vitale, Vitela, alvite

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??le?t?v/
• Rhymes: -e?t?v

Etymology 1

From Latin elatus (“exalted, lofty, high”) +? -ive. Possibly borrowed from German, which has produced a great deal of pioneering Semitist literature, and where Elativ is a common term for absolute superlative in all languages.

Noun

elative (plural elatives)

1. (grammar) In Semitic languages, the “adjective degree 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 ??????? (kab?r, “big”) is ???????? (?akbar, “bigger/biggest, greater/greatest”).

Translations

Etymology 2

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From Latin elatus, perfect past participle of effero (“carry out or away”)

Noun

elative (plural elatives)

1. (grammar) In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” or “from” 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".

Translations

See also

• absolute superlative
• comparative
• comparative superlative
• elative case
• relative superlative
• superlative
• degrees of comparison

Anagrams

• Alevite