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Sative vs Lative - What's the difference?

sative | lative |

As an adjective sative

is sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.

As a noun lative is

a case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.

sative

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Alternative forms

* (both obsolete)

Adjective

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  • (label) Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
  • * 1599 , Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner , P4b:
  • Tabacco… Translated out of India in the seed or roote; Natiue or satiue in our own fruitfullest soiles.
  • * 1664 , (John Evelyn), (third edition, 1679), page 2:
  • These [trees] we shall divide into the greater and more ceduous…and such as are sative and hortensial.
  • * 1725 , Bradley’s Family Dictionary , “Pine”:
  • The wild Pine differs no otherwise from the Sative .

    References

    * '' VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed.), part ii (S–Sh; 1914), page 124/1, “ †Sa·tive, ''a. ” ----

    lative

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (grammar) A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.
  • * An example from the Tsez language (a Northern Caucasian language):
  • .
  • *:: The girl shows the cat to the boy.