elative

 [ee-luh-tiv, el-uh-]  

e·la·tive

   [ee-luh-tiv, el-uh-] Grammar
adjective
1.
noting a case, as in Finnish, whose function is to indicate motion out of or away from.
noun
2.
an elative case.
3.
an adjectival form, as in Arabic, denoting intensity or superiority, approximately equivalent to the comparative and superlative of other languages.

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Elative is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur:
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Origin:
1585–95; < Latin ēlāt(us) (see elate) + -ive
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elative (ˈiːlətɪv)
 
—adj
1.  Compare illative (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
 
—n
2.  a.  the elative case
 b.  an elative word or speech element
 
[C19: from Latin ēlātus, past participle of efferre to carry out; see elate]

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