fientive
adj/fiˈ(j)ɛntɪv/
Etymology
From Latin fīēns (“becoming; happening”, present active participle of fīō (“to become; to happen”)), on the pattern of words such as stative, durative, iterative, causative etc.
Definitions
designating a durative and dynamic action performed by the subject
- This underlines again that a contrast of nominality versus verbality conveys a stative versus fientive purport.
designating entering into a state as opposed to being in a state
- The basic idea is that what previous scholarship categorised as a stative, viz. the various forms going back to a derivation with a long ē, is in fact a fientive, i.e. it designates the becoming and not the being.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for fientive. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA