Borrowed fromNew Latinsublātīvus, fromtollere(“to lift up, to elevate; to abolish”) +-īvus.
sublative (uncountable)
- (grammar) A case of nouns inFinno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally onto the surface of something (e.g.climb onto a tree), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g.to university, orabout (a subject)).
a case of nouns used to express the destination of movement
sublative (comparativemoresublative,superlativemostsublative)
- (grammar) Of or relating to the sublative case.
- Having power, or tending, totake away.
1890, George Thibaut, transl.,The Vedānta sūtras:Cessation dependent on asublative act of the mind
