FromFrenchcausatif, fromLatincausātīvus(“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), fromcausa(“cause”); seecause(verb) and-ive.
causative (notcomparable)
- Acting as acause.
- Involving, or affected by,causality.
Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximallycausative, distallycausative, or noncausative.
- (grammar) Expressing acause orcausation.
The ablative is acausative case.
linguistics: expressing cause or causation
causative (pluralcausatives)
- (grammar) An expression of anagent causing or forcing apatient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).
- “causative”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “causative”, inThe Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC.
causative
- femininesingular ofcausatif
- IPA(key): /kaw.zaˈti.ve/
- Rhymes:-ive
- Hyphenation:cau‧sa‧tì‧ve
causative
- feminineplural ofcausativo
