| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | al·la·tive |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   l  -t v |
| ADJECTIVE: | Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case expressing motion toward a place, as Finnish stadionille “to the stadium.” | | NOUN: | 1. The allative case. 2. A word in the allative case. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin all t vus, from Latin alltus, past participle of afferre, to bring toward : ad-, ad- + ltus, carried; see tel- in Appendix I.
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