Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
adjective
- serving to divide into parts.
- Grammar. noting part of a whole: the Latin partitive genitive.
noun
- Grammar. a partitive word or formation, as of the men in half of the men.
adjective
- grammar 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
noun
- grammar a partitive linguistic element or feature
adj.late 14c., “having the quality of dividing into parts,” from Late Latin partitivus, from Latin partitus, past participle of partire “to divide” (see part (v.)).