Fromduration +-ive.[1] Alternatively, borrowed fromFrenchduratif, fromOld Frenchduratif(“lasting continuously (for a certain time)”), viaAnglo-Norman French, and existing in the formduratif from about the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, when the spelling was altered todurative under the influence of the literary Neolatin movement. Analogous todure(“to last, to continue”) +-ive.
durative
- Of or pertaining toduration.
- Long-lasting.
- (linguistics) Of or pertaining to theaspect of averb that expressescontinuing action;continuative. Part of theimperfective aspect, as opposed to theperfective aspect, of verbs.
linguistics: expressing continuing action
durative (pluralduratives)
- (linguistics) Thisaspect, or a verb in this aspect; acontinuative.
1985,Robert Burchfield,The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page156:In every section of this invaluable work new light is thrown on ancient problems - phrasal verbs (bring up,put off), phrasal-prepositional verbs (catch up on,come up with) [...]duratives, sentence adverbs, and so on.
durative
- femininesingular ofduratif
durative
- feminineplural ofdurativo
