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Meaning of "comitative" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COMITATIVE

comitative  [ˈkɒmɪˌteɪtɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COMITATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Comitative is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES COMITATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Comitative case

The comitative case (abbreviated COM) is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment.:17–23In English,the preposition "with", in the sense of "in company with" or "together with," plays a substantially similar role (other uses of "with", e.g. with the meaning of "using" or "by means of" (I cut bread with a knife), correspond to the instrumental case or related cases).

Definition of comitative in the English dictionary

The definition of comitative in the dictionary is expressing accompaniment.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COMITATIVE


annotative
ˈænəˌteɪtɪv
connotative
ˈkɒnəˌteɪtɪv
constative
kənˈsteɪtɪv
creative
kriːˈeɪtɪv
crepitative
ˈkrɛpɪˌteɪtɪv
dissertative
ˈdɪsəˌteɪtɪv
gravitative
ˈɡrævɪˌteɪtɪv
hebetative
ˈhɛbɪˌteɪtɪv
hesitative
ˈhɛzɪˌteɪtɪv
incogitative
ɪnˈkɒdʒɪˌteɪtɪv
innovative
ˈɪnəˌveɪtɪv
integrative
ˈɪntɪˌɡreɪtɪv
irritative
ˈɪrɪˌteɪtɪv
native
ˈneɪtɪv
necessitative
nɪˈsɛsɪˌteɪtɪv
nonstative
nɒnˈsteɪtɪv
resuscitative
rɪˈsʌsɪteɪtɪv
stative
ˈsteɪtɪv
sustentative
ˈsʌstɛnˌteɪtɪv
voluntative
ˈvɒlənˌteɪtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COMITATIVE

coming
coming of age
coming out
coming up!
coming-of-age
comings and goings
Comintern
comique
comitadji
comitadjis
comital
comitatus
comitia
comitial
comities
comity
comity of nations
comix

WORDS THAT END LIKE COMITATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
cumulative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
initiative
legislative
narrative
negative
operative
qualitative
quantitative
relative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of comitative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «comitative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COMITATIVE

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The translations of comitative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «comitative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

comitative
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

comitativo
570 millions of speakers

English

comitative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

comitative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

comitative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

comitative
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

comitativo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

comitative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

comitative
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Comitatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Komitativ
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

comitative
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

comitative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Komitatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

comitative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

comitative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनुकरणीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

comitative
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

comitativo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

comitative
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

comitative
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

comitative
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

comitative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

comitative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

comitative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

komitativ
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of comitative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COMITATIVE»

The term «comitative» is regularly used and occupies the 75.893 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COMITATIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «comitative» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «comitative» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about comitative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COMITATIVE»

Discover the use of comitative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to comitative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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On the Meaning of Prepositions and Cases: The Expression of ...
The possible local origin of Comitative markers can be seen in languages which present evidence for the semantic extension from space to Comitative of markers of proximity. One of them is Ancient Greek metd, that I will discuss at length in ...
Silvia Luraghi, 2003
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New Challenges in Typology: Transcending the Borders and ...
Introduction1 The category of comitative has enjoyed a considerable increase of interest in the last decades, both in language-internal and in typological studies. Among the latter, Lehmann and Shin (2005) and the fundamental study by ...
Patience Epps, Alexandre Arkhipov, 2009
3
Split Possession: An Areal-linguistic Study of the ...
Since all languages of this test section employ comitative- like constructions for confectives (though to different degrees), the pairing of comitative and confective is a common trait of our 38 European languages, whereas the comitative-ornative  ...
‎2008
4
On Comitatives and Related Categories: A Typological Study ...
Surprisingly, the total number of tokens for patterns involving the syncretistic Comitative-Instrumental amounts to twice as many cases as those attested for distinct Comitatives and Instrumentals, cf. (B23). (B23) Ternary and larger patterns158 ...
Thomas Stolz, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze, 2006
5
Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles
Examples involving such contemporary vocabulary clearly show that the use of the comitative is not restricted to a closed class of “petrified” expressions (as suggested also by Jaakola & Tommola 2000: 97; Vilkuna 2000: 81). Furthermore  ...
Seppo Kittilä, Katja Västi, Jussi Ylikoski, 2011
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Reciprocal Constructions
Means of expressing related meanings 7.1 Comitative 7.1.1 The comitative suffix Yukaghir has neither comitative nor sociative verb forms; the corresponding meanings are expressed either by the comitative case form or by a free comitative ...
Vladimir Petrovich Nedi?a?lkov, Zlatka Guentchéva, 2007
7
Constituent Syntax: Adverbial Phrases, Adverbs, Mood, Tense
of marking in Section 9.5 below; here it must still be noted that, while cum is virtually obligatory for prototypical Comitative – that is, for accompanying human participants, nonprototypical Comitative, as well as Attendant Circumstances, can  ...
Philip Baldi, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, 2010
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New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax
of marking in Section 9.5 below; here it must still be noted that, while cum is virtually obligatory for prototypical Comitative – that is, for accompanying human participants, nonprototypical Comitative, as well as Attendant Circumstances, can  ...
Philip Baldi, Pierluigi Cuzzolin, 2010
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Reciprocals: Forms and Functions
A preliminary definition The clause type essential for cross-linguistic identification of the comitative marking is defined by the following conditions (cf. Stassen forthcoming): • one type of participation in the same event is ascribed to two separate ...
Zygmunt Frajzyngier, Traci S. Curl, 2000
10
Languages and Prehistory of Central Siberia
Thirdly, most Selkup dialects have innovated a new instrumental/comitative case form, possibly from a fusing of another, different adverb/postposition that might historically derive from a non-finite form of 'be', i.e. 'being' > INS > INS/COM.
Edward J. Vajda, 2004

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COMITATIVE»

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Fifteen of them in singular and plural, with fun names like elative, translative, and comitative. Oh yeah. You can make yourself really popular at ... «The Week Magazine, Jan 15»

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