postpositive

American  

[pohst-poz-i-tiv] / poʊstˈpɒz ɪ tɪv /

adjective

1. (of a word, particle, or affix) placed after a word to modify it or to show its relation to other elements of a sentence.

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noun

1. a postpositive word, particle, or affix; postposition.

postpositive British  

/ pəʊstˈpɒzɪtɪv /

adjective

1. (of an adjective or other modifier) placed after the word modified, either immediately after, as in two men abreast, or as part of a complement, as in those men are bad

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noun

1. a postpositive modifier

Other Word Forms

• postpositively adverb

Etymology

Origin of postpositive

1780–90; < Latin postpositus (past participle of postpōnere; postpone, position ) + -ive

Example Sentences

From kina, hina, originated the Icelandic and Swedish pastpositive def. article the; likewise Dak kin postpositive def. article the; ke emphatic pronoun kuns, clf, etc.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by Williamson, A. W. (Andrew Woods)