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frequentative

adj
/fɹɪˈkwɛntətɪv/

Etymology

From Middle English frequentatyf, from Late Latin frequentātīvus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”). By surface analysis, frequent + -ative.

  1. derived from frequentāre — “to do or use often”
  2. derived from frequentātīvus
  3. inherited from frequentatyf

Definitions

  1. Serving to express repetition of an action.

    • "Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack".

  2. Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer…

    Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for frequentative. 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