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- Latin · derived fromdeferre“to bear or bring away or down”
- English todaydelative
From the Latin deferre (“to bear or bring away or down”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
delative
Today it means: A grammatical case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table"). Full definition →
Latin deferre