operativus

== Latin == === Etymology === From operō (“to work”) +‎ -īvus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔ.pɛ.raːˈtiː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.pe.raˈtiː.vus] === Adjective === operātīvus (feminine operātīva, neuter operātīvum); first/second-declension adjective creative, formative ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “operativus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “operativus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.