frequentative
Plural: frequentatives
Noun
- a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action
- Any of a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.
Adj
- Serving to express repetition of an action.
Examples
- "Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack".
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English frequentatyf, from Late Latin frequentativus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”). Morphologically as if frequent + -ative. Akin to frequent.
Synonyms
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