See benefactive on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "benefactus",
"t": "benefited"
},
"expansion": "Latin benefactus (“benefited”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-ive"
},
"expansion": "-ive",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin benefactus (“benefited”) plus -ive. Attested since the twentieth century.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "benefactive (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Linguistics",
"orig": "en:Linguistics",
"parents": [
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ive",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "autobenefactive"
},
{
"word": "benefactive case"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1935, Charles Voeglin, Tübatulabal Grammar, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, volume 34, page 111:",
"text": "Normally, the repeated benefactive suffix is not found after the telic form of the verbal stem",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as \"on behalf of\" or \"on one's behalf.\""
],
"id": "en-benefactive-en-adj-pPbE7Mdi",
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as \"on behalf of\" or \"on one's behalf.\""
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "benefactive"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "benefactus",
"t": "benefited"
},
"expansion": "Latin benefactus (“benefited”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-ive"
},
"expansion": "-ive",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin benefactus (“benefited”) plus -ive. Attested since the twentieth century.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "benefactives",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "benefactive (plural benefactives)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "30 70",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "53 47",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English terms suffixed with -ive",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 82",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "19 81",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 69",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Grammatical cases",
"orig": "en:Grammatical cases",
"parents": [
"Grammar",
"Linguistics",
"Language",
"Social sciences",
"Communication",
"Sciences",
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case)."
],
"id": "en-benefactive-en-noun-hNgNWWcG",
"links": [
[
"dative case",
"dative case#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "benefactive"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -ive",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Grammatical cases"
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "autobenefactive"
},
{
"word": "benefactive case"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "benefactus",
"t": "benefited"
},
"expansion": "Latin benefactus (“benefited”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-ive"
},
"expansion": "-ive",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin benefactus (“benefited”) plus -ive. Attested since the twentieth century.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "benefactive (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"en:Linguistics"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1935, Charles Voeglin, Tübatulabal Grammar, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, volume 34, page 111:",
"text": "Normally, the repeated benefactive suffix is not found after the telic form of the verbal stem",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as \"on behalf of\" or \"on one's behalf.\""
],
"links": [
[
"linguistics",
"linguistics"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(linguistics) Of or pertaining to the linguistic form or case or the semantic role of the beneficiary of an action. Expressed in English as \"on behalf of\" or \"on one's behalf.\""
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"human-sciences",
"linguistics",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "benefactive"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms borrowed from Latin",
"English terms derived from Latin",
"English terms suffixed with -ive",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Grammatical cases"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "la",
"3": "benefactus",
"t": "benefited"
},
"expansion": "Latin benefactus (“benefited”)",
"name": "bor"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "-ive"
},
"expansion": "-ive",
"name": "affix"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Latin benefactus (“benefited”) plus -ive. Attested since the twentieth century.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "benefactives",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "benefactive (plural benefactives)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A term or sentence element that serves a benefactive role or that is inflected for the benefactive case or a similar case (such as the dative case)."
],
"links": [
[
"dative case",
"dative case#English"
]
]
}
],
"word": "benefactive"
}
Download raw JSONL data for benefactive meaning in All languages combined (3.0kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.