-ve - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Abbreviation, using the minus sign.
−ve (not comparable)
- Abbreviation of negative.
- Antonym: +ve
2002, “Haematology” (chapter 3), in Drew Provan, Andrew Krentz, editors, Oxford Handbook of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 225:
A typical result for a CD4 T lymphocyte population is shown: CD3, CD4 +ve; CD8, CD13, CD34, CD19 −ve.
-ve
- (adverbial participle suffix) A front-vowel variant of -va. See details there.
- ér (“to reach, to arrive”) →
- Az utcára érve körülnézett. ― Arriving on the street, s/he looked around.
- (adverbial participle suffix) Variants:
- -va is added to back-vowel verbs
- fut (“to run”) → Futva jöttek vissza. ― They came back running.
- -ve is added to front-vowel verbs
- ismer (“to know”) → Ismerve téged, elfogadom a véleményedet. ― Knowing you, I accept your opinion.
- -ván a less frequent variant of -va
- szól (“to speak”) → Az írásról szólván, mikor jelenik meg a legújabb könyve? ― Speaking of writing, when will your next book be published?
- -vén a less frequent variant of -ve
- ismer (“to know”) → Nem ismervén a tényeket, erre a kérdésre nem tudok válaszolni. ― Not knowing the facts, I can't answer this question.
- -va is added to back-vowel verbs
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯e/, [u̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ve/, [ve]
From Proto-Indo-European *-wē. Compare the Sanskrit वा (vā, “or”) and the Ancient Greek ἤ (ḗ).
-ve
- (always enclitic) or, leaving the choice free between two things or among several
44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippicae 14.6.16:
- Post hanc habitam contionem duabus tribusve horis optatissimi nuntii et litterae venerunt.
- After this assembly was over, within two or three hours, these most welcome messengers and letters arrived.
- Post hanc habitam contionem duabus tribusve horis optatissimi nuntii et litterae venerunt.
- (especially in negative sentences or questions implying a negative sentence) and, with the same meaning as -que
44 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Philippicae 5.5.13:
- Num, quod maximum est, leges nostras moresve novit, num denique homines?
- Does he—which is most important—does he know any thing about our laws and manners? Is he even acquainted with any of the citizens?
- Num, quod maximum est, leges nostras moresve novit, num denique homines?
- (poetic, repeated or with correlative part) either...or
8 CE, Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.214:
- Nostra quoque ipsorum semper requieque sine ulla / corpora vertuntur, nec quod fuimusve sumusve / cras erimus;
- And our bodies themselves are always, restlessly, changing: we shall not be, tomorrow, either what we were, or what we are.
- Nostra quoque ipsorum semper requieque sine ulla / corpora vertuntur, nec quod fuimusve sumusve / cras erimus;
See -vus.
-ve
-ve
- comparative or superlative suffix: more, most
- (with negatives) not anymore