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Meaning of "elative" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ELATIVE

From Latin ēlātus, past participle of efferre to carry out.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ELATIVE

elative  [ˈiːlətɪv] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ELATIVE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Elative can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ELATIVE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of elative in the English dictionary

The definition of elative in the dictionary is the elative case. Other definition of elative is an elative word or speech element.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ELATIVE


ablative
ˈæblətɪv
accumulative
əˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv
allative
ˈælətɪv
appellative
əˈpɛlətɪv
assimilative
əˈsɪmɪlətɪv
calculative
ˈkælkjʊlətɪv
coagulative
kəʊˈæɡjʊlətɪv
copulative
ˈkɒpjʊlətɪv
correlative
kɒˈrɛlətɪv
cumulative
ˈkjuːmjʊlətɪv
legislative
ˈlɛdʒɪslətɪv
manipulative
məˈnɪpjʊlətɪv
recapitulative
ˌriːkəˈpɪtjʊlətɪv
regulative
ˈrɛɡjʊlətɪv
relative
ˈrɛlətɪv
simulative
ˈsɪmjʊlətɪv
speculative
ˈspɛkjʊlətɪv
stimulative
ˈstɪmjʊlətɪv
superlative
suːˈpɜːlətɪv
violative
ˈvaɪələtɪv

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ELATIVE

elasticity
elasticize
elasticness
elastin
elastomer
elastomeric
Elastoplast
Elat
elate
elated
elatedly
elatedness
elater
elaterid
elaterin
elaterite
elaterium
Elath
elation

WORDS THAT END LIKE ELATIVE

active
administrative
alternative
collaborative
comparative
conservative
cooperative
creative
decorative
derivative
in the negative
informative
initiative
innovative
narrative
native
negative
operative
qualitative
quantitative
representative

Synonyms and antonyms of elative in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «elative» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ELATIVE

Find out the translation of elative to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of elative from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «elative» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

elative
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

elative
570 millions of speakers

English

elative
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

elative
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

elative
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

elative
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

elative
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

elative
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

élatif
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Elatif
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

elative
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

出格
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

elative
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Elatif
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

elative
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

elative
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रशंसनीय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

elative
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

elative
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

elativus
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

elative
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

udă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

elative
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

elative
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

elative
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

elative
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of elative

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ELATIVE»

The term «elative» is regularly used and occupies the 58.680 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ELATIVE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «elative» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «elative» 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 elative

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ELATIVE»

Discover the use of elative in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to elative and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Arabic Elative: A New Approach
CHAPTER THREE THE ORIGIN OF THE PATTERN AF'ALU The origin of the so- called elative in the Arabic language has been discussed by two scholars: by E. A. Speiser in his article "The 'elative' in West-Semitic and Akkadian", in the ...
M. M. Bravmann, 1968
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Arabic Grammar: A First Workbook
Plural **• f *•> bigger, biggest j£\ i£jr" several forms, but rarely used It follows that the Elative of an adjective of Colour or Defect has to be made differently: "redder" might be ashaddu fiumratan (Accusative, bound-*), lit. "stronger as to redness" ...
G. M. Wickens, 1980
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Applied Physics of Carbon Nanotubes: Fundamentals of Theory, ...
0 100 200 300 175 225 275 325 Raman Shift(1/cm) R e l a t i v e I n t e n s i t y Raman Shift(cm-1) (13,1) (9,3) (9,2) (9,6) (10,4) R e l a t i v e I n t e n s ity 0 100 200 175 225 275 325 Raman Shift (1/cm) R e l a t i v e I n t e n sity (9,3) (9,6) (10, 4) ...
Slava V. Rotkin, Shekhar Subramoney, 2006
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Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax
This tree is root+ELA cut/cut root+ELA "This tree is severed at the stem' Sentences (53b) and (c) are ambiguous; the elative phrase can be interpreted as a locative phrase, where the ball would have to be located somehow near the window to ...
Anders Holmberg, Urpo Nikanne, 1993
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The Use of PAS in the New Testament
There is a considerable degree of overlap between the elative and the quantity- elative senses, or perhaps we should say that the qua/ity-elative and the quantity- elative senses stand on a continuum. The difficulty in rendering them seems in ...
J. William Johnston, 2004
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Trames
The difference is expressed formally in the use of the elative NP, and semantically sentences (3-5) have the component of a question while sentences (6-8) are no longer questions. Thus, the elative component creates a different meaning. 4.
7
Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the ...
which is smaller than all the seeds or perhaps which is very small among all the seeds The first translation given for this text treats the adj. in its comparative sense, while the second translation treats it in an elative sense. This text has created ...
Daniel B. Wallace, 1996
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Morphologies of Asia and Africa
By the same logic, the ?aCCaC- elative of CaCiiC- adjectives could also be abandoned. One could add a 'than . . .' phrase to the simple CaCiiC- adjective, and it would be understood as a comparative construction. In the most archaic Muslim ...
9
Categorial Grammars and Natural Language Structures
Javanese Elative Adjectives A good illustration of a regular and productive morphological replacement-rule is provided by the process of elative formation in Javanese. The relevant facts and issues have been discussed at length by Dudas ...
Richard T. Oehrle, E. Bach, Deirdre Wheeler, 1988
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Saami Linguistics
Returning to Finnmark North Saami and the Eastern languages, the conditions that resulted in the phonological merger of inessive and elative were only relevant in the singular paradigm. However, the syncretism has also been extended by ...
Ida Toivonen, Diane Carlita Nelson, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ELATIVE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term elative is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Relative Strength Alert For United States Oil Fund
Legendary investor Warren Buffett advises to be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful. One way we can try to ... «Forbes, Jul 15»
2
Media Release: Innovative practices in the oil and gas industry reap …
IN a fast-paced, testing and often volatile environment, the oil and gas sector relies on innovative thinking and elative product design to keep it ... «allmediascotland.com, Jun 15»
3
DU admissions face numerous queries from students
JM Khurana explained to the parents and students that one language, two academic or elative subjects and the subject in which the admission ... «India Today, May 15»
4
Josh Duggar resigns from FRC amid molestation scandal
Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the FRC wrote in 2011 that “elative to the size of their population, homosexual men are more ... «Metro Weekly, May 15»
5
Australia needs radical CO2 cuts to match US, EU
“[R]elative ambition or effort will be a critical political issue this year,” write UK-based analysts Jonathan Grant, Robert Milnes and George Gale. «RTCC, May 15»
6
Bad policy, poor policing led to Baltimore eruption
But those are individual cases, and using a relative handful of incidents to smear all police is a dishonesty born of ideological zealotry. Besides ... «Salisbury Post, Apr 15»
7
Seating for Ching Hearing on a 'First Come, First Serve' Basis
The web site of the capitol elative to GM 514 nomination here, includes the nominee's resume, testimony, organizations testifying for and against and individuals ... «Honolulu Civil Beat, Mar 15»
8
In a country like Britain, obsessed with the now, libraries are a …
Relative to our basic understanding of what a city's main library ought to provide, it seems mind-boggling: 240,000 works of non-fiction, quietly ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
9
Octopus, octopi... octopodem? A guide to humiliating grammar nerds …
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»
10
BOMB BLAST:Scores Confirmed Dead In Yobe Bomb Blast
... town had witnessed several bomb and gun attacks from members of the Boko Haram sect in the past, it has recently enjoyed r:elative peace. «Osun Defender, Nov 14»

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