FACTITIVE Definition & Meaning

factitive

[fak-ti-tiv]

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Grammar.

noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.

factitive

/ ˈ��æ��ɪ��ɪ�� /

grammar denoting a verb taking a direct object as well as a noun in apposition, as for example elect in they elected John president, where John is the direct object and president is the complement

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1840–50; < New Latin �ڲ��پ��ī��ܲ�, equivalent to factit- (stem of Latin �ڲ��پ�� to do often, practice, declare (someone) to be) + -ī��ܲ� -ive

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C19: from New Latin �ڲ��پ��ī��ܲ� , from Latin �ڲ��پ�� to do frequently, from facere to do

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Cf. etch, which comes, through Dutch, from Ger. ätzen, the factitive of essen, to eat.

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This is also called the predicate objective or the factitive object.

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This word completing a transitive verb is sometimes called a factitive object, or second object, but it is a true complement.

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