durative
durative · duratives
This aspect, or a verb in this aspectThis aspect, or a verb in this aspect; a continuative.
Meaning
1 sensesThis aspect, or a verb in this aspect; a continuative.
the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration
Translations
2 languagesOrigin
From duration + -ive. Alternatively, borrowed from French duratif, from Old French duratifFrom duration + -ive. Alternatively, borrowed from French duratif, from Old French duratif (“lasting continuously (for a certain time)”), via Anglo-Norman French, and existing in the form duratif from about the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, when the spelling was altered to durative under the influence of the literary Neolatin movement. Analogous to dure (“to last, to continue”) + -ive.
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