lative - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Borrowed from French latif.

• IPA^(key): /ˈleɪtɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪv

lative (uncountable)

1. (grammar) A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.

Examples
from the Tsez language (a Northern Caucasian language): Кидбā ужихъор кIетIу биквархо. The girl shows the cat to the boy.

• lative case

• locative, separative: other general local cases

• Telavi, Vitale, Vitela, alvite