precative

From Latin precativus (“of prayer”), derived from precatio (“prayer”).

precative (comparative more precative, superlative most precative)

1. Resembling or pertaining to an entreaty.

precative (plural precatives)

1. (grammar) Mode expressing a wish, a prayer.
   • 2002, Richard Caplice, Introduction to Akkadian‎:

     The precative expresses a wish (may...!); it is formed by preposing the particle lu to the stative or the preterite.

• precatory

• precation

• preactive, recaptive

From precātīvus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pre.kaːˈtiː.u̯eː/, [prɛkäːˈt̪iːu̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pre.kaˈti.ve/, [prekäˈt̪iːve]

precātīvē (comparative precātīvius, superlative precātīvissimē)

1. (Late Latin) by prayer; by request

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