abdicative

English

Etymology 1

abdicate +‎ -ive

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/, /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/

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Adjective

abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)

1. (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.

Translations

(rare) causing, or implying, abdication

• French: abdicatif (fr)
• German: abdikativ (de)
• Latin: abdicativus
• Portuguese: abdicativo

Etymology 2

From Latin abdicativus.

Noun

abdicative (plural abdicatives)

1. (logic) A reasoning from the negative
   • 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:

     The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.

French

Adjective

abdicative

1. feminine singular of abdicatif

Latin

Etymology 1

From abdicatīvus (“negative”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ab.di.kaːˈtiː.u̯eː/, [äbd̪ɪkäːˈt̪iːu̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ab.di.kaˈti.ve/, [äbd̪ikäˈt̪iːve]

Adverb

abdicātīvē (not comparable)

1. negatively

Etymology 2

Adjective

abdicātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of abdicātīvus

References

• “abdicative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• abdicative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.