Meanings
adjective
nounlative (uncountable)
- uncountablegrammarA case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.
Origin
- Frenchlatif
- Frenchlatif
- Englishlative
Borrowed from French latif.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 方向格
- 方向格 (fāng xiàng gé)case
Czech lativ
- lativcase
Finnish latiivi
- latiivicase
Hungarian lativus, latívusz
- lativuscase
- latívuszcase
Korean 향격
- 향격 (hyanggyeok)case
Portuguese lativo
- lativocase
Spanish lativo
- lativocase
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with lative
creativedativestativeuncreativeanticreativecastrativecollativeconstativedictativedilativeelativeequativeflativeillativeinduplicativeinflativeinnativemiscreativemutativenear-nativenon-nativeoptativeplacativeprecreative
All rhymes →Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
lative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lative
MLA
“lative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lative. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lative,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lative.
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