Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

caritive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: car-i-tive
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to the caritive case.

adj

Of words or endings that express a lack of something, for example English homeless/-less or unsalted/un-, Finnish koditon, suolaton, -ton.

Etymology

From Latin careo (“I lack, am without”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: careo

Questions

What does caritive mean?: Of or relating to the caritive case.
Where does caritive come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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