copulative
Adjective
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Adjective
copulative (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to copulation.
- (grammar) That acts as a copula.
- (grammar) That connects the subject of a clause with its complement.
- Russian: копуляти́вный
copulative (plural copulatives)
- (obsolete) connection
- (grammar) A copulative conjunction.
- 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511 ↗, page 53 ↗:
- In polysyndeton#English|Polysyndeton conjunctions flow,
And every word its copulative will shew.
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