abdicative

English

Etymology 1

From abdicate +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/, /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/

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Adjective

abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)

1. (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.

Translations

(rare) causing, or implying, abdication

French: abdicatif (fr) German: abdikativ (de) Latin: abdicativus Portuguese: abdicativo

Etymology 2

From Latin abdicativus.

Noun

abdicative (plural abdicatives)

1. (logic) A reasoning from the negative
   • 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:

     The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.

French

Adjective

abdicative

1. feminine singular of abdicatif

Interlingua

Etymology

From abdicar +‎ -ative.

Adjective

abdicative (comparative plus abdicative, superlative le plus abdicative)

1. abdicative (causing, or implying, abdication)

References

• Alexander Gode (1951), Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL

Latin

Etymology 1

From abdicatīvus (“negative”) +‎ -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ab.dɪ.kaːˈtiː.weː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ab.di.kaˈtiː.ve]

Adverb

abdicātīvē (not comparable)

1. negatively

Etymology 2

Adjective

abdicātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of abdicātīvus

References

• “abdicative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abdicative”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.