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語源

From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɔːzətɪv/
• (General American) enPR: kôʹzə-tĭv, IPA: /ˈkɔzətɪv/, [ˈkɔ.zə.ɾɪv]
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /ˈkɑzətɪv/, [ˈkɑ.zə.ɾɪv]
• (Australia) IPA: /ˈkoːzətɪv/, [ˈkoː.zə.ɾɪv]
• 韻: -ɔːzətɪv
• ハイフネーション (英国発音): caus‧at‧ive, (米国発音): caus‧a‧tive

形容詞

causative (not comparable)

1. Acting as a cause.

   Synonym: (formal) occasional

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     Causative in nature of a number of effects.

2. Involving, or affected by, causality.

   Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.

3. (grammar) Expressing a cause or causation.

   The ablative is a causative case.

反意語

• noncausative

派生語

参考

• curative

名詞

causative (plural causatives)

1. (grammar) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

上位語

• verb

Further reading

• “causative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “causative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.