durative

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or pertaining to duration.
• Long-lasting.
• Of or pertaining to the aspect of a verb that expresses continuing action; continuative. Part of the imperfective aspect, as opposed to the perfective aspect, of verbs.

Noun

• This aspect, or a verb in this aspect; a continuative.

Origin

• Borrowed, ultimately from Old French duratif, via Anglo-Norman French, and existing in the form duratif from about the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries, when the spelling was altered to durative under the influence of the literary Neolatin movement. Analogous to dure + --ive.