sublative

sub down (to) latus carry. Perfect passive participle of sufferō (“carry down”).

• IPA^(key): /səˈbleɪtɪv/

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• Rhymes: -eɪtɪv

sublative (uncountable)

1. (grammar) A case of nouns in Finno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally onto the surface of something (e.g. climb onto a tree), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university).

sublative (comparative more sublative, superlative most sublative)

1. (grammar) Of or relating to the sublative case.
2. Having power, or tending, to take away.
   • 1890, George Thibaut, transl., The Vedānta sūtras:

     Cessation dependent on a sublative act of the mind

• vestibula