abdicative
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)
- (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.
Translations edit
(rare) causing, or implying, abdication
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Etymology 2 edit
From Latin abdicativus.
Noun edit
abdicative (plural abdicatives)
- (logic) A reasoning from the negative
- 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:
- The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.
French edit
Adjective edit
abdicative
Latin edit
Etymology 1 edit
From abdicatīvus (“negative”) + -ē.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ab.di.kaːˈtiː.u̯eː/, [äbd̪ɪkäːˈt̪iːu̯eː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ab.di.kaˈti.ve/, [äbd̪ikäˈt̪iːve]
Adverb edit
abdicātīvē (not comparable)
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
abdicātīve
References edit
- “abdicative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abdicative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.