adoptivus

== Latin == === Etymology === From adoptō (“to choose”) +‎ -īvus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [a.dɔpˈtiː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [a.dopˈtiː.vus] === Adjective === adoptīvus (feminine adoptīva, neuter adoptīvum); first/second-declension adjective adoptive (by adoption) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “adoptivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “adoptivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "adoptivus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “adoptivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.