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partitive, a. and n.|ˈpɑːtɪtɪv|
[ad. L. partītīv-us (perh. through F. partitif, -ive, 1550 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. L. partīt-us divided: see -ive.]
A. adj. Having the quality or function of dividing into parts; characterized by or indicating partition.
a. spec. in Gram. Denoting or indicating that only a part of a collective whole is considered or spoken of: esp. applied to a noun, pronoun, or adjective denoting such a part; also to the ‘genitive of the divided whole’ (Roby) used with such words (partitive genitive), in Greek, Latin, etc. (represented in Eng. by of with the n.: see of prep. XIII).
1520Whitinton Vulg. (1527) 5 b, The nowne partityue, as aliquis, quisquam: & euery nowne set as a nowne partityue. 1530Palsgr. Introd. 29 Nownes partityves and distributyves as tout, nul. 1590J. Stockwood Rules Construct. 33 Somtime of a noune partitiue or distributiue. 1828in Webster. 1876B. H. Kennedy Pub. Sch. Lat. Gram. ii. (ed. 4) 417 The Plural Genitive of the Thing Distributed is a divisible Whole, and depends on Partitive Words indicating that one or more Parts (or no Part) of such Whole are taken. 1899E. Anwyl Welsh Gram. §380 After the adjective llawn, ‘full’, what was probably an old Partitive Genitive, has survived in the dependent noun.
b. partitive judgement in Logic: see quot.
1895Funk's Stand. Dict., Partitive judgment, a judgment that, under form of a disjunctive, predicates of a genus its several species; as ‘Indians are either North-American or South-American’.
B. n. Gram. A partitive word; a word denoting a part of a whole.
1530Palsgr. 74 Pronownes, unto which I joyne, by cause of lykenesse in nature, partityves. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict. E iv, Partitiues will haue a Genitiue case. 1609E. Hoby Let. to T. H[iggons] 28 So that Matthewes partatiue, and Markes collectiue doe note one thing. 1612Brinsley Pos. Parts (1669) 133 This order is changed in the oblique cases of the Relative qui, of Interrogatives, Indefinites, and Partitives. 1876B. H. Kennedy Pub. Sch. Lat. Gram. ii. (ed. 4) 418 Partitives sometimes take the Gen. of a Collective Noun: ‘Plato totius Græciæ doctissimus fuit’. |