Meanings
nounsublative (uncountable)
- uncountablegrammarA 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)).
adjectivesublative (comparative more sublative, superlative most sublative)
comparative more sublative · superlative most sublative
- grammarOf or relating to the sublative case.
- Having power, or tending, to take away.
Cessation dependent on a sublative act of the mind
1890, George Thibaut, transl., The Vedānta sūtras
Origin
- New Latinsublātīvus
- Englishsublative
Borrowed from New Latin sublātīvus, from tollere (“to lift up, to elevate; to abolish”) + -īvus.
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Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish sublatiivi
- sublatiivia case of nouns used to express the destination of movement
French sublatif
- sublatifa case of nouns used to express the destination of movement
German Sublativ
- Sublativa case of nouns used to express the destination of movement
Hungarian sublativus
- sublativusa case of nouns used to express the destination of movement
Japanese 着格
- 着格 (chakkaku)a case of nouns used to express the destination of movement
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with sublative
creativedativestativelativeuncreativeanticreativecastrativecollativeconstativedictativedilativeelativeequativeflativeillativeinduplicativeinflativeinnativemiscreativemutativenear-nativenon-nativeoptativeplacative
All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
sublative. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sublative
MLA
“sublative.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sublative. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sublative,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sublative.
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