translative
/tɹænzˈleɪtɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.06 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, or relating to the translation of language.
adj
Of, or relating to the translative case.
noun
The translative case.
noun
A word in the translative case.
Example Sentences
- "Which suiting the case so well, you’ll forgive me, Sir, for popping down in English metre, as the translative impulse (pardon a new word, and yet we scholars are not fond of authenticating new words) came upon me uncalled for:"
- "1589, George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie, edited by Edward Arber, London: Alexander Murray & Son, 1869, Book 3, Chapter 18, p. 197, But properly and in his principall vertue Allegoria is when we do speake in sence translatiue and wrested from the owne signification, neuerthelesse applied to another not altogether contrary, but hauing much conueniencie with it as before we said of the metaphore: as for example if we should call the common wealth, a shippe; the Prince a Pilot, the Counsellours mariners, the stormes warres, the calme and [hauen] peace, this is spoken in allegorie […]"
Etymology
From Latin translativus (“that is to be transferred”). Compare French translatif.