causative
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Latin causativus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause.
[edit] Adjective
causative (not comparable)
- Acting as a cause.
[edit] Noun
causative (plural causatives)
- (linguistics) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
[edit] Translations
causing or forcing
[edit] External links
- causative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- causative in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
causative f.
- Feminine plural form of causativo
