Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

perlative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: perla-tive
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river".

noun

The perlative case, also known as the pergressive case.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- + lative.

Questions

What does perlative mean?: Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river".
Where does perlative come from?: Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- + lative.

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