Elative Definition
Contents
English
Wikipedia has an article on: ElativeNoun
elative
- (grammar) In Semitic languages, the “adjective 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.”
- (grammar) In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases. The elative case is a noun case that expresses “out of,” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian házból (“out of the house”). Its opposite is the illative case (“into”).
See also
- absolute superlative
- comparative
- comparative superlative
- elative case
- relative superlative
- superlative
- degrees of comparison
|