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There was a word new to me in the definition:"frequentative".
frequentative
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5L frequentativus < frequentare, to frequent6 Gram. expressing frequent and repeated action
n.
Gram. a frequentative verb !“sparkle” is a frequentative of “spark”"
Reminds me of a ribald tale available by PM.
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Sounds like a linguistic term.
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Linguistic term/example:
'rogito: frequentative form of rogo (1), "I ask for;" thus "I keep asking for" '
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rogitoI've been called that before... 
formerly known as etaoin...
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