† comitativeadj.1
Obsolete. rare.
Belonging to the body of Comites (see comes n.).
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society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > comitatus or military followers > [adjective]
comitative1683
1683 W. Cave Ecclesiastici Introd. p. lvi That they should..have the Comitative Honour, or the same Place and Dignity which the Comites..had conferr'd upon them.
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comitativeadj.2
/ˈkɒmɪteɪtɪv/ Grammar.
Expressing accompaniment; associative. Also as n.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > other specific cases
ablativec1400
instrumental1801
prepositional1824
allative1854
adessive1855
sociative1859
comitative1860
terminative1865
abessive1869
common case1869
translative1869
instructive1879
essive1890
transitional case1890
superessive1895
prepositional case1897
similative1903
lative1939
perlative1953
elative1959
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [adjective] > other spec.
polyptote1656
instrumental case1801
allative1831
adessive1852
abessive1854
instructive1857
caritive1860
comitative1860
juxtapositive1880
similative1884
illative1890
translative1890
introessive1903
perlative1937
lative1939
patient1939
ergative1943
elative1951
non-objective1954
superessive1971
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > other grammatical categories or concepts > [adjective] > expressing other relations or concepts
adversativec1450
commonc1450
concessive1653
local1662
aggregate1683
ecbatic1836
sociative1845
inversive1858
comitative1860
consecutive1871
conative1875
1860 Trans. Philol. Soc. 1857 34 The declension of the personal pronouns is as follows... Nominative, Genitive,..Comitative.
1879 W. D. Whitney Sanskrit Gram. §1121. 364 The comitative prefix sa, used..before nouns and adjectives.
1890 C. Eliot Finnish Gram. 132 The comitative and abessive express respectively the presence and absence of an object.
1903 Amer. Anthropologist Jan.–Mar. 13 Besides these, comitatives, similatives, partitives, and suffixes expressing similar ideas, are found.
1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 42 Comitative, in certain language groups (e.g. Finno-Ugric), a case having the denotation with or accompanied by. Comitative aspect, a verbal aspect expressing that the action or state denoted by the verb is performed or experienced together or jointly with somebody or something else.
1955 R. Quirk & C. L. Wrenn Old Eng. Gram. 67 The characteristic comitative function seen in expressions like the following: worhte Ælfred cyning lytle werede geweorc.
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