relative
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- rel. (abbreviation)
Etymology edit
From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin relātīvus, from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear or carry”).
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Adjective edit
relative (not comparable)
- Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
- For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.
- 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:
- (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.
- The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.
- (grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.
- The words “big” and “small” are relative.
- (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
- (archaic or rare) Relevant; pertinent; related.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 264, column 2:
- The Spirit that I haue ſeene
May be the Diuell, and the Diuel hath power
T'aſſume a pleaſing ſhape, yea and perhaps
Out of my Weakneſſe, and my Melancholly,
As he is very potent with ſuch Spirits,
Abuſes me to damne me. Ile haue grounds
More Relatiue then this: The play's the thing,
Wherein Ile catch the Conſcience of the King.
- relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...
- Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.
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- aliorelative
- blood relative
- ethnorelative
- first-degree relative
- it's all relative
- linear relative
- non-relative (or nonrelative)
- oreille relative
- relative address
- relative adjective
- relative atomic mass
- relative bearing
- relative clause
- relative complement, r. pseudo-comp.
- relative dating
- relative density
- relative error
- relative frequency
- relative humidity
- relative-in-law
- relative key
- relatively
- relativeness
- relative permittivity
- relative pin
- relative pitch
- relative pressure
- relative pronoun
- relative skewer
- relative superlative
- relative tense
- relative topology
- second-degree relative
- third-degree relative
- unrelative
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conditional; depending on something else
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Noun edit
relative (plural relatives)
- Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.
- Why do my relatives always talk about sex?
- (figurative) Something kindred or related to something else.
- Synonym: cousin
- (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:relative
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Translations edit
someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family
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- ^ In General American and Canadian English, the flapped [ɾ] pronunciation [ˈɹɛl.ə.ɾɪv] is more common than the aspirated [tʰ] pronunciation [ˈɹɛl.ə.tʰɪv]; but in the derived adverb relatively, the aspirated pronunciation [ˈɹɛl.ə.tʰɪv.li] is more common, though the flap-t version can still be heard, especially in casual speech.
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Danish edit
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relative
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relative
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective edit
relative
Etymology 2 edit
Ellipsis of proposition subordonnée relative.
Noun edit
relative f (plural relatives)
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Audio (file)
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relative
- inflection of relativ:
Italian edit
Adjective edit
relative f pl
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Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.laːˈtiː.u̯eː/, [rɛɫ̪äːˈt̪iːu̯eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.laˈti.ve/, [reläˈt̪iːve]
Adverb edit
relātīvē (not comparable)
References edit
- “rĕlātīvē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- relative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- rĕlātīvē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,335/2
Etymology 2 edit
A regularly declined form of relātīvus.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.laːˈtiː.u̯e/, [rɛɫ̪äːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.laˈti.ve/, [reläˈt̪iːve]
Adjective edit
relātīve
Norwegian Bokmål edit
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relative
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relative
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relative