causative

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Adjective 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 External links 2 Italian 2.1 Adjective

[edit] English

Wikipedia

[edit] Etymology

< Latin causativus (“‘causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative’”) < causa (“‘cause’”); see cause.

[edit] Adjective

causative (not comparable)

1. Acting as a cause.

[edit] Noun

causative (plural causatives)

1. (linguistics) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

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• causative in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• causative in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Adjective

causative f.

1. Feminine plural form of causativo.