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- New Latin · borrowed fromsublātīvus
- English todaysublative
Borrowed from New Latin sublātīvus, from tollere (“to lift up, to elevate; to abolish”) + -īvus.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
sublative
Today it means: A case of nouns in Finno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally onto the surface of something (e.g. climb onto a tree), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university, or about (a subject)). Full definition →
New Latin sublātīvus