-ive

== English == === Etymology === 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 === IPA(key): /ɪv/ === Suffix === -ive 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 ==== ==== Translations ==== === References === “-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 === VEI, VIE, vie == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /iv/ === Suffix === -ive f female equivalent of -if == Latin == === Suffix === -īve vocative masculine singular of -īvus == Middle English == === Suffix === -ive alternative form of -yf