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- Latin · learned borrowing fromperlātus
- English todayperlative
Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- + lative.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
perlative
Today it means: 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". Full definition →
Latin perlātus