FromLatinornō(“I equip, adorn”).
ornative (pluralornatives)
- (grammar) Anouncase that means "endowed with" or "supplied with".
2008,Thomas Stolz, Sonja Kettler, Cornelia Stroh, Aina Urdze,Split Possession: An areal-linguistic study of the alienability correlation and related phenomena in the languages of Europe, John Benjamins Publishing, page412:The languages are ordered according to increasing number of sentences in which a comitative-like construction represents theornative.
ornative (notcomparable)
- (grammar) Belonging or relating to such a case.
Belonging or relating to the ornative case
ornative f
- feminineplural ofornativo