different between relative vs attributive

English

Alternative forms

• rel. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin rel?t?vus, from Latin rel?tus, perfect passive participle of refer? (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + fer? (“to bear or carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l.?.t?v/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): (flapped) [???l.?.??v], (enunciated) [???l.?.t??v]
• Rhymes: -?l?t?v

Adjective

relative (not comparable)

1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

     For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

2. (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

3. (grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.

   The words “big” and “small” are relative.

4. (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
5. Relevant; pertinent; related.

6. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.

Synonyms

• comparative
• conditional
• limited

Antonyms

• absolute
• unlimited

Derived terms

• relative to

Related terms

Translations

Noun

relative (plural relatives)

2. Someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption.

3. (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:relative

Related terms

Translations

See also

Notes

Anagrams

• levirate

Danish

Adjective

relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Esperanto

Etymology

From relativa +? -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rela?tive/
• Hyphenation: re?la?ti?ve
• Rhymes: -ive

Adverb

relative

1. relatively

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.la.tiv/

Adjective

relative

1. feminine singular of relatif

Anagrams

• lèverait, lévitera, relevait, révélait

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

relative

1. feminine plural of relativo

Anagrams

• evitarle, levitare, leviterà, rilevate, rivalete, rivelate, vietarle

Latin

Etymology 1

From rel?t?vus +? -?.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.la??ti?.u?e?/, [r???ä??t?i?u?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.la?ti.ve/, [r?l??t?i?v?]

Adverb

rel?t?v? (not comparable)

1. (Late Latin) relatively

References

• r?l?t?v? in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• relative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• r?l?t?v? in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,335/2

Etymology 2

A regularly declined form of rel?t?vus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.la??ti?.u?e/, [r???ä??t?i?u??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.la?ti.ve/, [r?l??t?i?v?]

Adjective

rel?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of rel?t?vus

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

Swedish

Adjective

relative

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of relativ.

English

Etymology

attribute +? -ive

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?.?t??.bju.t?v/

Adjective

attributive (comparative more attributive, superlative most attributive)

1. (grammar, of a word or phrase) Modifying a noun, while in the same phrase as that noun.

   • Since both Attributes and Adjuncts recursively expand N-bar into N-bar, it seems clear that the two have essentially the same function, so that Attributes are simply pronominal Adjuncts (though we shall continue to follow tradition and refer to attributive premodifiers as Attributes rather than Adjuncts).

   Antonym: predicative

2. Having the nature of an attribute.
3. Serving to express an attribute of an object.

Derived terms

Related terms

• attribute

Translations

Noun

attributive (plural attributives)

1. (grammar) An attributive word or phrase (see above), contrasted with predicative or substantive.

   In "this big house," "big" is an attributive, while in "this house is big," it is a predicative.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.t?i.by.tiv/

Adjective

attributive

1. feminine singular of attributif

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

attributive

1. inflection of attributiv:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

attributive

1. feminine plural of attributivo

Anagrams

• ributtatevi