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partitive

[pahr-ti-tiv]

Origin

adjective

serving to divide into parts.

Grammar. noting part of a whole: the Latin partitive genitive.

noun

Grammar. a partitive word or formation, as of the men in half of the men.

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Origin:
1510–20; < Medieval Latin partītīvus divisive, equivalent to Latin partīt(us), past participle of partīrī to divide (see party) + -īvus -ive

Related forms

par·ti·tive·ly, adverb

un·par·ti·tive, adjective

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partitive (ˈpɑːtɪtɪv)

—*adj*
1.	grammar indicating that a noun involved in a construction refers only to a part or fraction of what it otherwise refers to. The phrase some of the butter is a partitive construction; in some inflected languages it would be translated by the genitive case of the noun
2.	serving to separate or divide into parts

—n
3.	grammar a partitive linguistic element or feature

[C16: from Medieval Latin partītīvus serving to divide, from Latin partīre to divide]

'partitively

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

partitive

1520, "having the quality of dividing into parts," from L.L. partitivus, from L. partitus, pp. of partire "to divide" (see part (v.)).

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