Frequentative

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  • adjective. Expressing or designating repeated action.
  • noun. A frequentative verb or verb form.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In grammar, serving to express the repetition of an action: as, dictito is a frequentative verb.
  • noun. A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as dictito (Latin) from dicto, vāvadīti (Sanskrit) from vadati, waggle from wag.
  • noun. Abbreviated freq.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Serving to express repetition of an action.
  • noun. Refers to a subclass of imperfective verbs that denote a repeated action, no longer productive in English, but found in e.g. Finnish, Latin, Russian, and Turkish.
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  • noun. a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action
    • Word Usage
    ""frequentative" of WAG, thus meaning ` to wag frequently '"
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    iterative  
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