causative en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- [ˈkɑ.zə.ɾɪv] (cot-caught-merger)
- /ˈkɔzətɪv/ (General-American)
- kôʹzə-tĭv (General-American)
- [ˈkɔ.zə.ɾɪv] (General-American)
- [ˈkoː.zə.ɾɪv] (Australia)
- /ˈkoːzətɪv/ (Australia)
- /ˈkɑzətɪv/ (cot-caught-merger)
- /ˈkɔːzətɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
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Etymology
From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Acting as a cause.
Causative in nature of a number of effects.
1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
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(not-comparable) Involving, or affected by, causality.
Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.
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(not-comparable) Expressing a cause or causation.
The ablative is a causative case.
Antonyms
Deriveds
causativeness · causativity · anticausativisation · multicausative · causatively · anticausative · causative verb · causativize · causativization · intercausative
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Translations (26)
hu okot képező (acting as a cause) · ca causatiu (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · hu eredményező (acting as a cause) · cy achosol (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · pl kauzatywny (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · ko 원인이 되는 (acting as a cause) · hu előidéző (acting as a cause) · fr causatif (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · ca causatiu (acting as a cause) · ko 사역 (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · cmn 使動 /使动 (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · pl przyczynowy (acting as a cause) · es causativo (acting as a cause) · fi kausatiivinen (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · hu okozó (acting as a cause) · ta பிறவினை (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · io kauzala (acting as a cause) · kk өзгелік (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · fi aiheuttava (acting as a cause) · hu műveltető (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · mn үйлдүүлэх (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · hy պատճառական (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · mn ᠦᠢᠯᠡᠳᠦᠭᠦᠯᠬᠦ (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · ka კაუზატიური (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · io kauziganta (linguistics: expressing cause or causation) · ja 使役 (linguistics: expressing cause or causation)