determinative

== English == === Etymology === From Middle French déterminatif. Equivalent to determine +‎ -ative. === Pronunciation === === Noun === determinative (plural determinatives) (linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts. Synonym: taxogram Coordinate terms: classifier, rebus (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Synonym: determiner (sometimes hyponymous) ==== Derived terms ==== phonetic determinative ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== article demonstrative ==== Further reading ==== determinative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Adjective === determinative (comparative more determinative, superlative most determinative) That determines something. (law) Sufficient to decide something (such as a question of fact or of law). Coordinate term: dispositive 1905 January 21, Ch. Kent, opinion, New York Foundling Hospital v. Gatti, Arizona [Territorial] Supreme Court, as reported in, 1907, The Lawyers Reports Annotated, new series, volume 7, page 313 [1]: This proceeding, though not presenting questions difficult of determination, or points of law that are novel, is unusual in many of its features, and is important as determinative of the disposition and welfare of a number of little children, ignorant of the contest that is being carried on in regard to them. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Italian == === Adjective === determinative feminine plural of determinativo === Anagrams === determinatevi