portatif

English

Etymology

From French portatif.

Noun

portatif (plural portatifs)

1. A portative organ.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔʁ.ta.tif/

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Adjective

portatif (feminine portative, masculine plural portatifs, feminine plural portatives)

1. portable

   Synonym: portable

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: پورتاتیف (portatif)
  • Turkish: portatif

Further reading

• “portatif”, in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse
• Littré, Émile (1873–1878), “portatif”, in Dictionnaire de la langue française, Paris: L. Hachette
• “portatif”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Paronyms

• hortatif

Anagrams

• profitât