prepositive

See also: prépositive

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prepositive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Alternative forms

• præpositive (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin praepositivus, past participle of praepono (“to place before, to place ahead of”)

Adjective

prepositive (not comparable)

1. Put before; prefixed

   a prepositive particle

Derived terms

• prepositively

Related terms

• preposition

Noun

prepositive (plural prepositives)

1. A prepositive word.

References

• “prepositive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Italian

Adjective

prepositive

1. feminine plural of prepositivo