Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

caritive

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf 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

Word Breakdown

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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