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captative

captative adjective: describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.

Adjective

captative (not comparable)

  1. Describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function

Noun

captative (plural captatives)

  1. A verb that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.

Forms of captative

pluralcaptatives

Questions about captative

What does captative mean?
Captative means describing a verb (in some languages) that has a specific ending or other marker to indicate a hunting or catching function.
What part of speech is captative?
Captative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near captative in the dictionary

  1. captainship
  2. captainships
  3. captan
  4. captation
  5. captations
  6. captative
  7. captatives
  8. captayne
  9. captaynes
  10. captayneship
  11. captayneships

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