frequentative

About 0.02 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Serving to express repetition of an action.

   "Crackle" is an English frequentative verb derived from "crack".

2. noun Any of 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.

Similar words

frequent repetitious overfrequent oft-repeated intensive expletive hyperfrequent persistent periphrastic incessive

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Word family

frequentatives