itive
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin itus (“gone”), perfect passive participle of eō (“to go”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”) + -ive.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]itive (not comparable)
- (grammar) Synonym of andative
- 1993, George van Driem, A Grammar of Dumi, page 210:
- The itive aspectizers express a totalizing of the action.
- 2003, Roberta Facchinetti, Frank Palmer, Manfred Krug, Modality in Contemporary English, page 121:
- […] in other words, the itive verb here signals narrative dissonance, with all the attendant effects […]