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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The perlative case, also known as the pergressive case.

Adjective

1. 1
   Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river". not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms

casenominativeprepositional

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- + lative.

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