perlative

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river".
noun
  1. The perlative case, also known as the pergressive case.

Word forms

perlative

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- + lative.

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