agglutinative









agglutinative


adjective

  1. tending or having power to agglutinate or unite: an agglutinative substance.
  2. Linguistics. pertaining to or noting a language, as Turkish, characterized by agglutination.Compare inflectional(def 2), isolating.

adjective

  1. tending to join or capable of joining
  2. Also: agglomerative linguistics denoting languages, such as Hungarian, whose morphology is characterized by agglutinationCompare analytic (def. 3), synthetic (def. 3), polysynthetic
adj.

1630s, in a medical sense, from Latin agglutinat-, past participle stem of agglutinare (see agglutination). Philological sense is from 1650s.

adj.

  1. Concerning or characteristic of agglutination.
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