causative

Etymology

From French causatif, from Latin causātīvus (“causative, pertaining to a lawsuit, accusative”), from causa (“to cause”); see cause (verb) and -ive.

adj

1. Acting as a cause.
2. Involving, or affected by, causality.
   Such statistical analysis can establish correlation but cannot tell us whether the correlation is proximally causative, distally causative, or noncausative.
3. (linguistics) Expressing a cause or causation.
   The ablative is a causative case.

noun

1. (linguistics) An expression of an agent causing or forcing a patient to perform an action (or to be in a certain condition).