elative
/ˈɛlətɪv/
adjective
- Relating to or denoting a grammatical case in some languages (such as Finnish) that expresses movement out of or away from something, similar to 'out of' in English.
- In Finnish, the elative case is used to mean 'from inside' or 'out of'.
- Linguistics students often study the elative case when learning Uralic languages.
- The elative suffix in Hungarian indicates origin or material.
noun
- The elative case, or a word in that case.
- In the sentence, 'He came out of the house,' the word 'house' would be in the elative in some languages.
- The elative is one of the locative cases in Finnish grammar.
- The teacher asked the class to identify the elative in the Estonian text.