factive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A factive verb.
形容词 adj.
  1. Licensing only those content clauses that represent claims that are (known or believed with certainty to be) true. not-comparable
    — Under this account, verbs like forget and remember are classified as factive (1) and verbs like think and believe as nonfactive (2).
  2. Making; creative. not-comparable,obsolete
  3. Which does not know any falsities: which knows only truths. not-comparable

词形变化

factives plural

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English fact
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English factive
From fact + -ive.
词源 2
From New Latin factīvus, from Latin facere (“to make”).
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