patientive

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English

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Etymology

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patient +‎ -ive

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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patientive (not comparable)

  1. (linguistics) Pertaining to a grammatical patient that receives the action of the verb.

Noun

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patientive (plural patientives)

  1. (linguistics) A word having this construction.

See also

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