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Definition of Partitive

1. Adjective. (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole. "A partitive construction"

2. Noun. Word (such a 'some' or 'less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole.

3. Adjective. Indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts. "Partitive tendencies in education"

4. Adjective. Serving to separate or divide into parts. "The uniting influence was stronger than the separative"

Definition of Partitive

1. a. Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.

2. n. A word expressing partition, or denoting a part.

Definition of Partitive

1. Adjective. that divides something into parts ¹

2. Adjective. (grammar) indicating a part rather than the whole of something; e.g. some ¹

3. Noun. (grammar) a partitive word, phrase or case ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Partitive

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Partitive

partition coefficient partition of unity partition off partitionable partitioned partitioned off partitioner partitioners partitioning partitionings

partitionist partitionists partitionment partitionments partitions partitive (current term) partitive case partitive cases partitively partitives

partizan partizans partizanship partizanships partless partlets partly partner partner in crime

Literary usage of Partitive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1882)
"The quasi-partitive Genitive. Under this term we may include a number of constructions in which the Gen. is used (in preference to some other Case) because ..."

2. High School Course in Latin Composition by Charles McCoy Baker, Alexander James Inglis (1909)
"Learn carefully the list of partitive adjectives in 108. 3. Note particularly the usage of mille, a thousand, and milia, thousands. ..."

3. A Theoretical and Practical Grammar of the French Tongue: In which the by Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac, Stephen Pasquier (1833)
"The verb, which relates to a collective partitive, is put in the plural, when that partitive is followed by the preposition de and a. plural ; but it is put ..."

4. A Practical French Grammar with Exercises and Illustrative Sentences from by William Dwight Whitney (1887)
"A noun preceded by de (with or without the definite article), having the value of a partitive genitive, is much used in French where it is desired to ..."

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