relative

• rel. (abbreviation)

From Middle French relatif, from Late Latin relātīvus, from Latin relātus, perfect passive participle of referō (“to carry back, to ascribe”), from re- (“again”) + ferō (“to bear or carry”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/
  • (US, Canada) IPA^(key): (flapped) [ˈɹɛl.ə.ɾɪv], (enunciated) [ˈɹɛl.ə.tʰɪv][note 1]

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• Rhymes: -ɛlətɪv

relative (not comparable)

1. Connected to or depending on something else; comparative.
   • 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, BBC Sport:

     For Liverpool, their season will now be regarded as a relative disappointment after failure to add the FA Cup to the Carling Cup and not mounting a challenge to reach the Champions League places.

2. (computing, of a URL, URI, path, or similar) Expressed in relation to another item, rather than in complete form.

   The relative URL /images/pic.jpg, when evaluated in the context of http://example.com/docs/pic.html, corresponds to the absolute URL http://example.com/images/pic.jpg.

3. (grammar) Depending on an antecedent; comparative.

   The words “big” and “small” are relative.

4. (music) Having the same key but differing in being major or minor.
5. (archaic or rare) Relevant; pertinent; related.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 264, column 2:

     The Spirit that I haue ſeene
     May be the Diuell, and the Diuel hath power
     T'aſſume a pleaſing ſhape, yea and perhaps
     Out of my Weakneſſe, and my Melancholly,
     As he is very potent with ſuch Spirits,
     Abuſes me to damne me. Ile haue grounds
     More Relatiue then this: The play's the thing,
     Wherein Ile catch the Conſcience of the King.

   relative to your earlier point about taxes, ...

6. Capable to be changed by other beings or circumstance; conditional.

relative (plural relatives)

1. Someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption; someone in the same family.

   Why do my relatives always talk about sex?

2. (figurative) Something kindred or related to something else.

   Synonym: cousin

3. (linguistics) A type of adjective that inflects like a relative clause, rather than a true adjective, in certain Bantu languages.

• See also Thesaurus:relative

• levirate

relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

From relativa +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): [relaˈtive]
• Rhymes: -ive
• Hyphenation: re‧la‧ti‧ve

relative

1. relatively

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.la.tiv/

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

relative

1. feminine singular of relatif

Ellipsis of proposition subordonnée relative.

relative f (plural relatives)

1. (grammar) relative clause, adjectival clause, adjective clause

• lèverait, lévitera, relevait, révélait

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relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

relative f pl

1. feminine plural of relativo

• evitarle, levitare, leviterà, rilevate, rivalete, rivelate, vietarle

From relātīvus +‎ -ē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.laːˈtiː.u̯eː/, [rɛɫ̪äːˈt̪iːu̯eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.laˈti.ve/, [reläˈt̪iːve]

relātīvē (not comparable)

1. (Late Latin) relatively

• “rĕlātīvē”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• relative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• rĕlātīvē in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,335/2.

A regularly declined form of relātīvus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /re.laːˈtiː.u̯e/, [rɛɫ̪äːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /re.laˈti.ve/, [reläˈt̪iːve]

relātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of relātīvus

relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

relative

1. inflection of relativ:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

relative

1. definite natural masculine singular of relativ