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partitive

 : 
Adjective, Noun
 : 
par=ti=tive

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun partitive has 1 sense

Adjective partitive has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

partitivea. [Cf. F. partitif.].
     Denoting a part; as, a partitive genitive.  [1913 Webster]
partitiven. 
     A word or phrase expressing partition, or denoting a part; as, the phrase “of the team” in “half of the team”.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

partitive, adj. & n. Gram.
--adj. (of a word, form, etc.) denoting part of a collective group or quantity.
--n. a partitive word (e.g. some, any) or form.

Idiom
partitive genitive a genitive used to indicate a whole divided into or regarded in parts, expressed in English by of as in most of us.
Derivative
partitively adv.
Etymology
F partitif -ive or med.L partitivus (as PARTITE)
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