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fientive

adjective /fiˈ(j)ɛntɪv/

  1. designating a durative and dynamic action performed by the subject

    This underlines again that a contrast of nominality versus verbality conveys a stative versus fientive purport.

  2. designating entering into a state as opposed to being in a state

    The basic idea is that what previous scholarship categorised as a stative, viz. the various forms going back to a derivation with a long ē, is in fact a fientive, i.e. it designates the becoming and not the being.

Where it comes from

From Latin fīēns (“becoming; happening”, present active participle of fīō (“to become; to happen”)), on the pattern of words such as stative, durative, iterative, causative etc.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry fientive (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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