precative

English

Etymology

From Latin precativus (“of prayer”), derived from precatio (“prayer”).

Adjective

precative (comparative more precative, superlative most precative)

1. Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty.

Noun

precative (plural precatives)

1. (grammar) Mode expressing a wish, a prayer.
   • 2002, Richard Caplice, Introduction to Akkadian‎^[1]:

     The precative expresses a wish (may...!); it is formed by preposing the particle lu to the stative or the preterite.

Synonyms

• precatory

Related terms

• precation

Translations

mode expressing a wish

• French: précatif (fr) m
• Hungarian: precativus, (describing certain Uralic languages) kedveskedő igemód
• Latin: precātīvus m

Anagrams

• preactive, recaptive

Latin

Etymology

From precātīvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /pre.kaːˈtiː.u̯eː/, [prɛkäːˈt̪iːu̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.kaˈti.ve/, [prekäˈt̪iːve]

Adverb

precātīvē (comparative precātīvius, superlative precātīvissimē)

1. (Late Latin) by prayer; by request

References

• “precative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• precative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.