Crossword-Solution: ALLATIVE
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Designating motion toward: Gram. case. | 1 answer |
| word in grammatical case denoting movement towards | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REATE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALLATIVE (4)
Adverbs are also found in the comparative and superlative degree, and are then in the essive, partitive, and translative cases, or adessive, ablative, and allative.
The adessive, ablative, and allative, on the other hand, are called the external cases, because they indicate rest on and motion from or into the exterior surface of an object.
The most singular instance of this is, that the verbs signifying to remain or to leave invariably take this case, or the allative.
The original meaning of the translative, like that of the illative and allative, seems to be motion to; but this only survives in a few adverbs.
Quotes with ALLATIVE (1)
ABSTRACT THOUGHTS in a blue room; Nominative, genitive, etative, accusative one, accusative two, ablative, partitive, illative, instructive, abessive, adessive, inessive, essive, allative, translative, comitative. Sixteen cases of the Finnish noun. Odd, some languages get by with only singular and plural. The American Indian languages even failed to distinguish number. Except Sioux, in which there was a plural only for animate objects. The blue room was round and warm and smo…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1944).