Frequentative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Expressing or designating repeated action.
  • n. A frequentative verb or verb form.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Serving to express repetition of an action.
  • n. Refers to a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In grammar, serving to express the repetition of an action: as, dictito is a frequentative verb.
  • n. A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as dictito (Latin) from dicto, vāvadīti (Sanskrit) from vadati, waggle from wag.
  • n. Abbreviated freq.
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  • n. a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    verb   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    iterative   
     
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