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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024par•ti•tive (pär′ti tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - serving to divide into parts.
- Grammarnoting part of a whole:the Latin partitive genitive.
n. - Grammara partitive word or formation, as of the men in half of the men.
- Medieval Latin partītīvus divisive, equivalent. to Latin partīt(us), past participle of partīrī to divide (see party) + -īvus -ive
- 1510–20
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: partitive /ˈpɑːtɪtɪv/ adj - indicating that a noun involved in a construction refers only to a part or fraction of what it otherwise refers to. The phrase some of the butter is a partitive construction; in some inflected languages it would be translated by the genitive case of the noun
- serving to separate or divide into parts
n - a partitive linguistic element or feature
Etymology: 16th Century: from Medieval Latin partītīvus serving to divide, from Latin partīre to divideˈpartitively adv |