causative

English

Etymology

From French causatif, from Latin causativus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause.

Adjective

causative (not comparable)

1. acting as a cause
   • Francis Bacon

     Causative in nature of a number of effects.

2. (linguistics) expressing a cause or causation

   The ablative is a causative case.

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).

Hypernyms

• verb

Translations

linguistics

• Aragonese: causetivo
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 使役 (zh) (shǐyì)

• Finnish: kausatiivi (fi)
• French: causatif (fr) m, factitif (fr) m
• German: Kausativ (de) n

• Greek: αίτιος (el) m (aítios)
• Japanese: 使役 (しえき, shieki)
• Russian: побуди́тельный зало́г m (pobudítelʹnyj zalóg), понуди́тельный зало́г m (ponudítelʹnyj zalóg), каузати́вный зало́г m (kauzatívnyj zalóg), каузати́в (ru) m (kauzatív)
• Swedish: kausativ
• Volapük: jenükamavärb

Further reading

• 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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French

Adjective

causative

1. feminine singular of causatif

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Italian

Adjective

causative

1. feminine plural of causativo

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