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Webster 1828 Edition

Precative

PRE'CATIVE

Definition 2024

precative

precative

English

Adjective

precative ‎(comparative more precative, superlative most precative)

Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty.

Noun

precative ‎(uncountable)

(grammar) Mode expressing a wish, a prayer.
- 2002, Richard Caplice, Introduction to Akkadian:
  The precative expresses a wish (may...!); it is formed by preposing the particle lu to the stative or the preterite.

Synonyms

precatory

Related terms

precation

Translations

mode expressing a wish

French: précatif (fr) m

Latin: precātīvus m

Latin

Etymology

From precātīvus.

Adverb

precātīve

(Late Latin) by prayer; by request

References

precative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “precative”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.