FromLatinjussus, perfect participle ofjubeō (variant ofiubeō), 'to order, command'. Related to Latiniūs(“law, order”).
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jussive (usuallyuncountable,pluraljussives)
- (grammar, uncountable and countable) The jussivemood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
1990, Bruce K. Waltke, Michael Patrick O′Connor,An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax,page566:For example, in the Aaronide blessing, only two of the six verbs are formallyjussives, yet all have the same volitional sense.
2003, Robert E. Longacre,Joseph: A Story of Divine Providence: A Text Theoretical and Textlinguistic Analysis of Genesis 37 and 39-48, 2nd edition, footnote,page 121:As far as thejussive goes — ignoring the very few occurrences of this in first person — it can be noted that most of the second-personjussives are in negative commands.
2003, Sharon Rose, “The formation of Ethiopian Semitic internal reduplication”, in Joseph Shimron, editor,Language Processing and Acquisition in Languages of Semitic, Root-Based, Morphology,page90:If, on the other hand, reference is made purely to the root, we would expect all frequentativejussives to appear with a front element, producing*mɨt′ət′ɨs instead ofmɨt′ət′ɨs (19d).
2006, Robert Ray Ellis,Learning to Read Biblical Hebrew: An Introductory Grammar,page174:Thejussive and cohortative usually convey more indirect, or more subtle, expressions of volition than the imperative does.
- (Arabic grammar) A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after someparticles and inconditional clauses.
- Synonym:apocopate
jussive (notcomparable)
- (grammar) Of or in the jussive mood.
of or in the jussive mood
jussive
- femininesingular ofjussif
- Synonyms:impérative,injonctive
- IPA(key): /jusˈsi.ve/
- Rhymes:-ive
- Hyphenation:jus‧sì‧ve
jussive
- feminineplural ofjussivo
