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reportative

noun

Etymology

From report + -ative.

  1. derived from reporto
  2. derived from reporter
  3. inherited from reporten
  4. suffixed as reportative — “report + ative”

Definitions

  1. A grammatical construct used in some languages when reporting something learned from…

    A grammatical construct used in some languages when reporting something learned from somebody else.

    • The child's progress in the modification stage can be characterized as an advancement from the use of performatives to the use of reportatives.

  2. Of or relating to such a construct.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reportative. 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