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illative

adj
/ɪˈleɪtɪv/UK

Etymology

From Late Latin illātīvus (“illative”), from Latin illātus, perfect passive participle of inferō (“carry or bring into somewhere; bury; conclude”), from in + ferō (“bear, carry; suffer”).

  1. derived from illātus
  2. derived from illātīvus

Definitions

  1. Of, or relating to an illation.

    • an illative consequence or proposition
    • an illative conjunction, such as "for" or "therefore"

  2. Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards…

    Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates motion towards or into something.

  3. A word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore).

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. An illation.

    2. The illative case, or a word in that case.

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Derived

illative case, illatively, short illative

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for illative. 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