frequentative

English

Etymology

From Late Latin frequentativus, from Latin frequentare (“to do or use often”); see frequent. Surface analysis is frequent +‎ -ative.

Adjective

frequentative (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Serving to express repetition of an action.

   "Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack".

Translations

serving to express the frequent repetition of an action

• Armenian: բազմապատկական (hy) (bazmapatkakan) 

• Finnish: frekventatiivinen (fi)
• Maori: kakai (mi)

Noun

Wikipedia frequentative (plural frequentatives)

1. (grammar) Refers to a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.

Synonyms

• iterative

Translations

subclass of imperfective verbs that denotes a continuously repeated action

• Armenian: բազմապատկական (hy) (bazmapatkakan) 
• Finnish: frekventatiivi (fi)
• French: fréquentatif (fr) m
• German: Frequentativum n

• Latin: frequentativum n
• Russian: многократный вид (ru) (mnogokrátnyj vid) m 
• Spanish: frecuentativo m

See also

• -er
• -le

External links

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

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Italian

Adjective

frequentative f

1. feminine plural form of frequentativo