prepositive

See also: prépositive

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “prepositive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Etymology

From Latin praepositivus, past participle of praepono (“to place before, to place ahead of”).

Adjective

prepositive (not comparable)

  1. Put before; prefixed
    a prepositive adjective
    a prepositive cone
    a prepositive object
    a prepositive particle
    a prepositive verb

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Noun

prepositive (plural prepositives)

  1. A prepositive word.

References

Italian

Adjective

prepositive

  1. feminine plural of prepositivo
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