adessive

English

Etymology

From ad- (at) +‎ essive.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɛsɪv

Adjective

adessive (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Of or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates adjacent location.
    Coordinate terms: abessive, inessive
    • 2015, Aet Lees, Case Alternations in Five Finnic Languages: Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps, BRILL, →ISBN, page 272:
      Their objects are partitive except in Finnish, where there is one accusative object of an inessive infinitive and two of adessive infinitives.

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Noun

adessive (plural adessives)

  1. (grammar) The adessive case, or a word in that case.
    Coordinate terms: abessive, inessive

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