Elative vs Delative - What's the difference?
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(grammar) In Semitic languages, the “adjective of superiority.” In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative . How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.”
(grammar) In Finno-Ugric languages, one of the locative cases, expressing “out of,” as in Finnish talosta, Hungarian ból (“out of the house”). Its opposite is the illative case (“into”). In Finnish, the case form is used also to express "out of" or "proximity" in a figurative sense which in English is often conveyed by the word "about" .
a case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express the movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").
As nouns the difference between elative and delative
is that elative is in Semitic languages, the “adjective of superiority.” In some languages such as Arabic, the concepts of comparative and superlative degree of an adjective are merged into a single form, the elative. How this form is understood or translated depends upon context and definiteness. In the absence of comparison, the elative conveys the notion of “greatest”, “supreme.” while delative is a case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express the movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").elative
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(wikipedia elative)Etymology 1
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(en noun)- The elative of .
