causative meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

causative

adj

UK /ˈkɔːzətɪv/ · US /ˈkɔzətɪv/

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

Acting as a cause.

Causative in nature of a number of effects.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:

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.

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Expressing a cause or causation.

The ablative is a causative case.

Antonyms: noncausative
Derived terms: anticausative, anticausativisation, causatively, causativeness, causative verb, causativity, causativization, causativize, intercausative, multicausative
Related terms: curative

causative

noun

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

Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).

Hypernyms: verb