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partitive

[ pahr-ti-tiv ]

adjective

  1. serving to divide into parts.
  2. Grammar. noting part of a whole:

    the Latin partitive genitive.



noun

  1. Grammar. a partitive word or formation, as of the men in half of the men.

partitive

/ ˈ±èɑ˳Ùɪ³Ùɪ±¹ /

adjective

  1. grammar indicating that a noun involved in a construction refers only to a part or fraction of what it otherwise refers to. The phrase some of the butter is a partitive construction; in some inflected languages it would be translated by the genitive case of the noun
  2. serving to separate or divide into parts
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. grammar a partitive linguistic element or feature
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ±è²¹°ù³Ù¾±³Ù¾±±¹±ð±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ±è²¹°ùt¾±Â·³Ù¾±±¹±ð·±ô²â adverb
  • ³Ü²Ô·±è²¹°ùt¾±Â·³Ù¾±±¹±ð adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of partitive1

1510–20; < Medieval Latin ±è²¹°ù³ÙÄ«³ÙÄ«±¹³Ü²õ divisive, equivalent to Latin ±è²¹°ù³ÙÄ«³Ù ( us ), past participle of ±è²¹°ù³ÙÄ«°ùÄ« to divide ( party ) + -Ä«±¹³Ü²õ -ive
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of partitive1

C16: from Medieval Latin ±è²¹°ù³ÙÄ«³ÙÄ«±¹³Ü²õ serving to divide, from Latin ±è²¹°ù³ÙÄ«°ù±ð to divide
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Example Sentences

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All is used with of, like a partitive; as, all of a thing, all of us.

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It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after hwæt.

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The partitive article is used precisely as in French.

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I deny that of is here the sign of the possessive, and affirm that it is taken partitively, in all examples of this sort.

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These three parts are: first, nouns—the names of things; second, verbs—the names of events; and, third, the partitives—or the words which express the relations of things to events.

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