-ive - Wiktionary

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ive"

English

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Etymology

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From Middle English -yf, from Anglo-Norman -if from Latin -īvus. Until the fourteenth century, all Middle English loanwords from Anglo-Norman ended in -if (compare actif, natif, sensitif, pensif etc.). Under the influence of literary Neo-Latin, both languages introduced the form -ive. Those forms that have not been replaced were subsequently changed to end in -y (compare hasty, from hastif, jolly, from jolif etc.).

Like the Latin suffix -iō (genitive -iōnis), the Latin suffix -ivus is appended to the perfect passive participle to form an adjective of action.

Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /ɪv/

Suffix

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-ive

1. An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to, or serving to; as: affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

Derived terms

[edit] English terms suffixed with -ive abbreviative abdicative abductive abirritative abjective ablutive abreactive abrogative abstractive abstrusive abusive accelerative acceptive accommodative accreditive accretive acculturative accumulative accusive acetylative acquisitive active adaptive addressive adjunctive adjustive admonitive adoptive adultivity advancive advective advisive advocative affective affinitive affixive afflictive affricative affrontive agentive agglomerative agglutinative aggravative aggregative aggressive agitative alleviative alliterative allocative allusive ambispective ambulative ameliorative amusive anecdotive animadversive animative annihilative annotative anticipative antihypertensive anxiostressive apertive appeasive appetitive applausive applicative appointive appreciative appropriative approximative argumentative argumentive arrestive arrosive articulative aspective aspersive assassinative assaultive assentive assertive asseverative assistive associative -ative attemptive attenuative attestative attestive attractive attributive attritive augmentive benedictive benefactive bifurcative blaxploitative bloviative boastive calculative carbonylative caressive castrative circulative circumventive coagulative coaptive coercive cohesive collaborative colligative collusive combative combinative combustive commemorative comminative commiserative commutive competitive complaintive complicative compressive computative concatenative concentrative conciliative concretive concussive conducive conductive confederative confessive conflictive congestive conglomerative congratulative congregative congressive conjugative conscriptive consecrative constantive constative constipative constitutive constraintive constrictive constructive consultive consummative contaminative contemptive contortive contractive contradictive contrastive contributive contusive convective convolutive coordinative corrective correlative corresponsive corroborative corruptive creative cumulative cunctative cursive debilitative decarboxylative decelerative dechticaetiative decisive decoctive decompressive decongestive dedicative deducive deductive defensive deflagrative deflective defusive degenerative dehydrative deletive delineative delusive demarcative dementive demissive demonstrative denotative denotive depictive depreciative

Translations

[edit] adjectival suffix: of the nature of; tending to

Afrikaans: -ief Albanian: -iv Asturian: -ivu Azerbaijani: -ici Basque: -ibo Catalan: -iu (ca) Danish: -iv Dutch: -ief (nl), -ieve Finnish: -iivi, -iivinen French: -if (fr) m, -ive f Galician: -ivo (gl) German: -iv (de) Hungarian: -ív Indonesian: -if (id) Interlingua: -ive Irish: -ach Italian: -ivo m, -iva f, -ivi m pl, -ive f pl Japanese: -的 (ja) (-teki) Korean: -적 (-jeok) Latin: -ivus m, -iva f, -ivum n, -ivi m pl, -ivae f pl, -iva n pl Malay: -if (ms) Maltese: -iv Norwegian: Bokmål: -iv Nynorsk: -iv Occitan: -iu Polish: -ny (pl), -czy (pl) Portuguese: -ivo (pt), -tivo (pt) Romanian: -iv m or n, -ivă f Russian: -и́вный (-ívnyj) Serbo-Croatian: -ivan m, -ivna f, -ivno n Spanish: -ivo (es) m, -iva (es) f Swedish: -iv (sv) Tagalog: -ibo Turkish: -ici, -if Yiddish: ־יוו (-iv)

References

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• “-ive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Miller, D. Gary (2006), Latin Suffixal Derivatives in English: and their Indo-European Ancestry, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 204

Anagrams

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• VEI, VIE, vie

French

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Pronunciation

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• IPA(key): /iv/

Suffix

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-ive f

1. female equivalent of -if

Latin

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Suffix

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-īve

1. vocative masculine singular of -īvus

Middle English

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Suffix

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-ive

1. alternative form of -yf