perlative

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- +‎ lative.

Adjective

perlative (not comparable)

  1. (grammar) Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river".

Noun

perlative

  1. (grammar) The perlative case, also known as the pergressive case.
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