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English

Etymology

From Latin relativus, adjective form with suffix -ivus, from relatus, perfect passive participle of referre, literally carry again, from prefix re-, again + ferre, bear or carry, from PIE ??

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-relative.ogg


Preposition

relative

  1. Relating to, being relevant towards.


Adjective

  1. not absolute; connected to or depending on something else


Antonyms


Translations

Noun

  1. someone in the same family; someone connected by blood, marriage, or adoption
  2. refer to relativity for a scientific definition


Translations

  • Arabic: (qaríb)
  • Armenian: ազգական (azgakan)
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|rod|m}}
  • Chinese: 亲戚 (qīnqi)
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|rod|m}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|příbuzný|m}}
  • Danish: pårørende, beslægtet, frænde
  • Dutch: familielid, bloedverwant
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|parent|m}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Verwandte|m|f}}
  • Hungarian:
  • Icelandic:
  • Italian: {{t-|it|parente|m}}, {{t+|it|congiunto|m}}
  • Japanese: 親戚 (しんせき, shinseki), 身内 (みうち, miuchi), 関係詞 (かんけいし, kankeishi)
  • Korean: 친척 (chincheok)
  • Kurdish:
  • Old Church Slavonic: {{tø|cu|ближика|m|tr=bližika|sc=Cyrl|xs=Old Church Slavonic}}
  • Polish: krewny , krewna
  • Portuguese: {{t+|pt|parente|m}}
  • Russian: {{t+|ru|родственник|m|tr=ródstvennik|sc=Cyrl}}
  • Serbian:
  • : Cyrillic: род
  • : Roman: rod
  • Spanish: {{t+|es|pariente|m}}
  • Swahili: ndugu (noun 9/10)
  • Swedish: {{t-|sv|släkting|c}}
  • Telugu: బంధువు (bamdhuvu)
  • Thai: (yâat), (yâat pêe nóng)
  • Vietnamese: {{t+|vi|họ hàng|xs=Vietnamese}}

Related terms


See also

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Italian

Adjective

relative


Category:Italian adjective forms

et:relative el:relative fr:relative io:relative id:relative it:relative hu:relative ja:relative pl:relative ru:relative simple:relative fi:relative ta:relative te:relative vi:relative zh:relative

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Relative \Rel"a*tive\ (r?l"?-t?v), a. [F. relatif, L. relativus.
See Relate.]
1. Having relation or reference; referring; respecting;
standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not
relative to the subject.
[1913 Webster]

I'll have grounds
More relative than this. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. Arising from relation; resulting from connection with, or
reference to, something else; not absolute.
[1913 Webster]

Every thing sustains both an absolute and a relative
capacity: an absolute, as it is such a thing, endued
with such a nature; and a relative, as it is a part
of the universe, and so stands in such a relations
to the whole. --South.
[1913 Webster]

3. (Gram.) Indicating or expressing relation; refering to an
antecedent; as, a relative pronoun.
[1913 Webster]

4. (Mus.) Characterizing or pertaining to chords and keys,
which, by reason of the identify of some of their tones,
admit of a natural transition from one to the other.
--Moore (Encyc. of Music).
[1913 Webster]

Relative clause (Gram.), a clause introduced by a relative
pronoun.

Relative term, a term which implies relation to, as
guardian to ward, matter to servant, husband to wife. Cf.
Correlative.
[1913 Webster]
GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Relative \Rel"a*tive\, n.
One who, or that which, relates to, or is considered in its
relation to, something else; a relative object or term; one
of two object or term; one of two objects directly connected
by any relation. Specifically:
(a) A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one
allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
"Confining our care . . . to ourselves and relatives."
--Bp. Fell.
(b) (Gram.) A relative pronoun; a word which relates to, or
represents, another word or phrase, called its
antecedent; as, the relatives "who", "which", "that".
[1913 Webster]
WordNet relative
adj 1: not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger" [ant: absolute]
2: properly related in size or degree or other measurable
characteristics; usually followed by `to'; "punishment
oughtt to be proportional to the crime"; "earnings
relative to production" [syn: proportional]
n 1: a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching
for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant
relations back in New Jersey" [syn: relation]
2: an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as
related by common descent or by membership in the same
genus) [syn: congener, congenator]
Moby Dictionary
affiliated , affinitive , agnate , allied , analogical , analogous ,
ancestry , appertaining , applicable , approximate , apropos ,
associated , associative , aunt , blood , blood relation ,
blood relative , brother , child , clansman , cognate , collatable ,
collateral , collateral relative , commensurable , commensurate ,
comparable , comparative , conditional , congenial , connected ,
connections , connective , consanguinean , contingent , contingent on ,
correlative , cousin , daughter , dependent on , distaff side ,
distant relation , en rapport , enate , family , father , flesh ,
flesh and blood , folks , german , germane , grandchild , granddaughter ,
grandfather , grandmother , grandparent , grandson , half brother ,
interconnected , interrelated , kin , kindred , kinfolk , kinnery ,
kinsfolk , kinsman , kinsmen , kinswoman , kith and kin , linking ,
matchable , mother , much at one , near , near relation , nephew ,
next of kin , niece , parallel , parent , people , pertaining ,
pertinent , posterity , proportionable , proportional , proportionate ,
referable , referring , related , relating , relation , relational ,
relations , relative to , relatives , relevant , reliant , sib , sibling ,
similar , sister , son , spear kin , spear side , spindle kin ,
spindle side , subject to , subordinate to , sword side , sympathetic ,
tribesman , uncle , uterine kin


FOLDOC RELATIVE

Early system on IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).


RELATIVE. One connected with another by blood or affinity; a relation, a kinsman or kinswoman. In an adjective sense, having relation or connexion with some other person or thing; as relative rights, relative powers.
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