locativeadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈlɒkətɪv/, U.S.

/ˈlɑkədɪv/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin locativus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin locativus of or relating to place (13th cent.), determining place (14th cent. in a British source), (in grammar) designating the locative case (1657 or earlier) < classical Latin locāt- , past participial stem of locāre locate v. + -īvus -ive suffix. In sense A. 3 after locate v. 3; compare locator n. 3 and location n. 1b.

A. adj.

1. Grammar.

a. In inflected languages: designating a case of nouns, pronouns, and of words in grammatical agreement with them, the function of which is to indicate location.In English typically expressed by the use of the prepositions in, on, or at before the noun.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [adjective] > locative

locative1778

inessive1886

1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. 53 The Locative case, definitive of situation, and generally known by the sign in.

1841 H. H. Wilson Introd. Gram. Sanskrit Lang. iii. 33 The termination of the locative case.

1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. ix. 560 The adverbial Locative cases of Nouns in common use, hŭmī, dŏmī, militiæ, &c.

1905 A. C. Hollis Masai Introd. p. xxii The power of expressing the genitive and locative cases resides principally in the article.

1986 W. A. Foley Papuan Lang. New Guinea iv. 99 The ablative and instrumental case suffixes are transparently derived from the allative and locative case endings.

2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. f3 Finnish has six locative cases.

b. Of or relating to a locative or the locative case; functioning as a locative.

ΚΠ

1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. 154 In the seventh case with the locative termination.

1862 T. Clark Handbk. Compar. Gram. 114 This view of the Locative origin of the Latin Genitive in the second declension.

1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. ix. 559 Locative Adverb-forms.

1906 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 41 484 I do not find the locative phrase ad salinas in any other writer, but this is mere accident.

1909 R. Dixon in Putnam Anniv. Vol. 472 Locative ideas are expressed in Wintun by a series of particles.

1975 Language 51 875 The locative particle yú in the above sentences is no longer used.

2010 W. D. Davies Gram. of Madurese viii. 241 Madurese contains a set of locative nouns which combine with the basic locative prepositions to denote various locations.

2. Of or relating to physical location.

ΚΠ

a1791 J. Wesley Serm. Several Occasions (1800) IX. 228 As this poor animal was destitute of sensation, it must equally have been destitute of reflection... Nor could it have any locative Power, while it was so closely bound in on every side.

1883 E. C. Lefroy Windows of Church p. xxxi The sculptor..Can make the marble statue breathe and live; Yet with a life cold, silent, locative.

1890 M. O. Stanton Syst. Pract. & Sci. Physiognomy II. ii. ii. 637 In the animal kingdom the high-flying birds and the fleetest animals possess the best locative powers.

1900 F. E. Bolton Secondary School Syst. Germany iv. 239 This locative and descriptive, largely physical geography, is later made more physico-political, commercial, and social.

1974 New Scientist 27 June 751/2 Where it actually is located will depend on the siting, or locative, system which is related to the movements described above.

2013 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Feb. (Life & Style section) 27 King Street and the Sydney inner suburb of Newtown are only too real, thus lending a degree of locative authenticity to Hardy's fictional existence.

†3. Relating to the appointment of a person to an official position. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only in the works of Jeremy Bentham: cf. locate v. 3.

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society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [adjective] > relating to appointment to office

locative1816

1816 J. Bentham Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized 53 Of the locative function, the mode of exercise is as follows.

4. U.S. Law. Serving to locate or fix the position of something. Chiefly in locative call n. an object or point indicated in a land survey or grant, used as a marker to establish boundaries (cf. call n. 16). Now rare.

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the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > ascertaining or determining position

locative1817

locating1898

1817 J. Marshall in H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 211 If, after having reached the neighbourhood, the locative object cannot be found within the limits of the descriptive call, the entry is equally defective.

1817 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 211 Entries made in a wilderness would most generally refer to some prominent and notorious object which might direct the attention to the neighbourhood in which the land was placed; and then to some particular object which should exactly describe it. The first of these has been denominated the general or descriptive call, and the last the particular or locative call, of the entry.

1899 Q. Texas State Hist. Assoc. 3 140 To direct the investigation to the Jamaica crossing as the locative call for the southern end of the single route from St. Joseph's Island.

1922 Southwestern Reporter 239 419/1 Entries have been placed in this class where the boundary of the land is specific and definite, and requires no aid for notoriety of the locative call.

1962 C. M. Brown & W. H. Eldridge Evid. & Procedures Boundary Location ii. §47. 52 The locative call, ‘set a stone’, is controlling, but, in the absence of the locative call, the passing calls have probative force.

B. n.

Grammar. With the: the locative case. As a count noun: a word or word form in the locative case.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > locative

locative1804

1804 W. Carey Gram. Sungskrit Lang. ii. i. 35 There are seven Cases, viz. the Nominative, Accusative, Instrumental, Dative, Ablative, Possessive, and Locative.

1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. vi. 206 There was originally in all the Aryan languages a case expressive of locality, which grammarians call the locative.

1888 J. E. King & C. Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Greek & Lat. xii. 341 The adverbs in -ē were originally locatives.

1906 Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 7 405 Locatives were commonly used as place-names.

1965 D. Ward Russ. Lang. Today 183 Some substantives have a special form of the prepositional after в and на, i.e. a locative, distinguished from the normal prepositional by having the stress on the ending.

1992 Trans. Philol. Soc. 90 35 A language such as Old Church Slavic, which retains the locative as a separate case.

2003 S. C. Levinson Space in Lang. & Cognition 335 A well-attested tendency for both ablatives and allatives to lose their dynamic meaning and become locatives.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	locative
释义	locativeadj.n. Brit. /ˈlɒkətɪv/, U.S. /ˈlɑkədɪv/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin locativus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin locativus of or relating to place (13th cent.), determining place (14th cent. in a British source), (in grammar) designating the locative case (1657 or earlier) < classical Latin locāt- , past participial stem of locāre locate v. + -īvus -ive suffix. In sense A. 3 after locate v. 3; compare locator n. 3 and location n. 1b. A. adj. 1. Grammar. a. In inflected languages: designating a case of nouns, pronouns, and of words in grammatical agreement with them, the function of which is to indicate location.In English typically expressed by the use of the prepositions in, on, or at before the noun. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [adjective] > locative locative1778 inessive1886 1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. 53 The Locative case, definitive of situation, and generally known by the sign in. 1841 H. H. Wilson Introd. Gram. Sanskrit Lang. iii. 33 The termination of the locative case. 1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. ix. 560 The adverbial Locative cases of Nouns in common use, hŭmī, dŏmī, militiæ, &c. 1905 A. C. Hollis Masai Introd. p. xxii The power of expressing the genitive and locative cases resides principally in the article. 1986 W. A. Foley Papuan Lang. New Guinea iv. 99 The ablative and instrumental case suffixes are transparently derived from the allative and locative case endings. 2006 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 3 Nov. f3 Finnish has six locative cases. b. Of or relating to a locative or the locative case; functioning as a locative. ΚΠ 1778 N. B. Halhed Gram. Bengal Lang. 154 In the seventh case with the locative termination. 1862 T. Clark Handbk. Compar. Gram. 114 This view of the Locative origin of the Latin Genitive in the second declension. 1894 W. M. Lindsay Lat. Lang. ix. 559 Locative Adverb-forms. 1906 Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 41 484 I do not find the locative phrase ad salinas in any other writer, but this is mere accident. 1909 R. Dixon in Putnam Anniv. Vol. 472 Locative ideas are expressed in Wintun by a series of particles. 1975 Language 51 875 The locative particle yú in the above sentences is no longer used. 2010 W. D. Davies Gram. of Madurese viii. 241 Madurese contains a set of locative nouns which combine with the basic locative prepositions to denote various locations. 2. Of or relating to physical location. ΚΠ a1791 J. Wesley Serm. Several Occasions (1800) IX. 228 As this poor animal was destitute of sensation, it must equally have been destitute of reflection... Nor could it have any locative Power, while it was so closely bound in on every side. 1883 E. C. Lefroy Windows of Church p. xxxi The sculptor..Can make the marble statue breathe and live; Yet with a life cold, silent, locative. 1890 M. O. Stanton Syst. Pract. & Sci. Physiognomy II. ii. ii. 637 In the animal kingdom the high-flying birds and the fleetest animals possess the best locative powers. 1900 F. E. Bolton Secondary School Syst. Germany iv. 239 This locative and descriptive, largely physical geography, is later made more physico-political, commercial, and social. 1974 New Scientist 27 June 751/2 Where it actually is located will depend on the siting, or locative, system which is related to the movements described above. 2013 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 9 Feb. (Life & Style section) 27 King Street and the Sydney inner suburb of Newtown are only too real, thus lending a degree of locative authenticity to Hardy's fictional existence. †3. Relating to the appointment of a person to an official position. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only in the works of Jeremy Bentham: cf. locate v. 3. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [adjective] > relating to appointment to office locative1816 1816 J. Bentham Extract Constit. Code: Official Aptitude Maximized 53 Of the locative function, the mode of exercise is as follows. 4. U.S. Law. Serving to locate or fix the position of something. Chiefly in locative call n. an object or point indicated in a land survey or grant, used as a marker to establish boundaries (cf. call n. 16). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > position or situation > [adjective] > ascertaining or determining position locative1817 locating1898 1817 J. Marshall in H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 211 If, after having reached the neighbourhood, the locative object cannot be found within the limits of the descriptive call, the entry is equally defective. 1817 H. Wheaton Rep. Supreme Court U.S. 2 211 Entries made in a wilderness would most generally refer to some prominent and notorious object which might direct the attention to the neighbourhood in which the land was placed; and then to some particular object which should exactly describe it. The first of these has been denominated the general or descriptive call, and the last the particular or locative call, of the entry. 1899 Q. Texas State Hist. Assoc. 3 140 To direct the investigation to the Jamaica crossing as the locative call for the southern end of the single route from St. Joseph's Island. 1922 Southwestern Reporter 239 419/1 Entries have been placed in this class where the boundary of the land is specific and definite, and requires no aid for notoriety of the locative call. 1962 C. M. Brown & W. H. Eldridge Evid. & Procedures Boundary Location ii. §47. 52 The locative call, ‘set a stone’, is controlling, but, in the absence of the locative call, the passing calls have probative force. B. n. Grammar. With the: the locative case. As a count noun: a word or word form in the locative case. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > case > [noun] > locative locative1804 1804 W. Carey Gram. Sungskrit Lang. ii. i. 35 There are seven Cases, viz. the Nominative, Accusative, Instrumental, Dative, Ablative, Possessive, and Locative. 1861 F. M. Müller Lect. Sci. Lang. vi. 206 There was originally in all the Aryan languages a case expressive of locality, which grammarians call the locative. 1888 J. E. King & C. Cookson Princ. Sound & Inflexion Greek & Lat. xii. 341 The adverbs in -ē were originally locatives. 1906 Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft 7 405 Locatives were commonly used as place-names. 1965 D. Ward Russ. Lang. Today 183 Some substantives have a special form of the prepositional after в and на, i.e. a locative, distinguished from the normal prepositional by having the stress on the ending. 1992 Trans. Philol. Soc. 90 35 A language such as Old Church Slavic, which retains the locative as a separate case. 2003 S. C. Levinson Space in Lang. & Cognition 335 A well-attested tendency for both ablatives and allatives to lose their dynamic meaning and become locatives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1778
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