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venitive

venitive adjective: indicating motion to or toward a thing.

Adjective

venitive (not comparable)

  1. (particle, or inflection) Indicating motion to or toward a thing.
    • The venitive suffix associates an event of ‘motion to or toward’ to the main verb.2007, Loretta O’Connor, Motion, Transfer and Transformation: The grammar of change in Lowland Chontal, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 131

Noun

venitive (plural venitives)

  1. A grammatical word, particle, or inflection that indicates motion to or toward a thing; or, the indication so provided.
    • […] a derivational suffix indicating ‘movement toward the speaker or deictic center’. […] a derivational venitive […]1994, Joan L. Bybee, Revere Dale Perkins, and William Pagliuca, The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, pages 11–12

Forms of venitive

pluralvenitives

Origin of venitive

From Latin veniō (“to come, to approach”).

Words formed from venitive

Questions about venitive

What does venitive mean?
Venitive means indicating motion to or toward a thing.
What part of speech is venitive?
Venitive can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near venitive in the dictionary

  1. venistasis
  2. venisuture
  3. Venit
  4. Venite
  5. Venitian
  6. venitive
  7. venitives
  8. venitivity
  9. Venits
  10. Venizelism
  11. Venizelist

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