transformative
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin transformātīvus (“transformative”), from Latin trānsfōrmātus (“transformed”) + -īvus (suffix attached to the perfect passive participial stems of verbs, forming deverbal adjectives meaning ‘doing or related to doing [the verb]’). Trānsfōrmātus is the perfect passive participle of trānsfōrmō (“to transform”), from trāns- (prefix meaning ‘across; beyond; through’) + fōrmō (“to fashion, form, format, shape”) (from fōrma (“appearance, figure, form, shape”); further etymology unknown, perhaps related to Ancient Greek μορφή (morphḗ, “a form, shape”)).[1] The English word is analysable as transform + -ative.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /trɑːnsˈfɔːmətɪv/, /tɹæns-/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /tɹænsˈfɔɹmətɪv/, [-ɾɪv]
Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)
- Hyphenation: trans‧form‧a‧tive
Adjective
[edit]transformative (comparative more transformative, superlative most transformative)
- That causes a transformation; causing a notable and lasting change
- Synonyms: transformatory, transmutative
- Antonym: nontransformative
- 2019 November 6, Graeme Pickering, “New targets for Northumberland”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 46:
- "You'll know the transformative effect that the Metro has had on the whole of Tyneside," says NCC [Northumberland County Council] leader Peter Jackson. "This new passenger line will have the same effect on southeast Northumberland. It's a transformative project and we're going to make sure it happens."
- (linguistics) Chiefly in transformative-generative: of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones; transformational.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- transform
- transformable
- transformance (rare)
- transformant
- transformation
- transformational
- transformator (archaic)
- transformatory
- transformed (adjective)
- transformer
- transformerless
- transforming (adjective, noun)
- transformism
- transformist
Translations
[edit]that causes transformation
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of or relating to a theory of generative grammar in which defined operations called transformations produce new sentences from existing ones — see also transformational
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References
[edit]- ^ “transformative, v.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 2018; “transformative, v.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
[edit]transformational grammar on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
