positivus

== Latin == === Etymology === From pōnō (“to put, place”) + īvus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pɔ.sɪˈtiː.wʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [po.s̬iˈtiː.vus] === Adjective === positīvus (feminine positīva, neuter positīvum); first/second-declension adjective positive (grammar) positive (of an adjective, not comparative or superlative) ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “positivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "positivus", 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) “positivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.