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el·a·tive E0066750 (ĕl′ə-tĭv)adj. Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating motion out of a place in some languages, as in Finnish hotellista, "out of the hotel." n.1. The elative case.2. A word or form in the elative case. [New Latin ēlātīvus : from Latin ēlātus, past participle of efferre, to bring out; see elate + -ive.]elative (ˈiːlətɪv) adj (Grammar) (in the grammar of Finnish and other languages) denoting a case of nouns expressing a relation of motion or direction, usually translated by the English prepositions out of or away from. Compare illative3n (Grammar) a. the elative caseb. an elative word or speech element[C19: from Latin ēlātus, past participle of efferre to carry out; see elate]Translations |