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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exessive

/ɪkˈsɛsɪv/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
exes-sive
IPA
/ɪkˈsɛsɪv/
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.

noun

The exessive case, or a word in that case.

Etymology

From ex- (“out of”) + essive. According to linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso, the case was originally called the excessive (derived from Latin excessus (“departure”)), which would make the spelling exessive a case of folk etymology.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

exessives (plural)

Homonyms

excessive

Rhymes With

non-progressive present perfect progressive nondepressive superexpressive nonimmunosuppressive nonrepressive nonexcessive nonobsessive nonoppressive superaggressive antiprogressive antessive

Questions

How do you pronounce exessive?
The recorded pronunciation is /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/.
What does exessive mean?
Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.
Where does exessive come from?
From ex- (“out of”) + essive. According to linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso, the case was originally called the excessive (derived from Latin excessus (“departure”)), which would make the spelling exessive a case of folk etymology.

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