# perlative

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Describes a case, in very few inflected languages, that expresses movement through or along a referent noun, as "along" in "they travelled along the river".

## Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin perlātus + -ive. By surface analysis, per- + lative.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/perlative