perlative
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- + lative.
Adjective
[edit]perlative (not comparable)
- (grammar) Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river".
Noun
[edit]perlative
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