-itive
Word Origin
1
a suffix occurring in substantives of Latin origin:
definitive; fugitive.
Origin
< Latin -itīvus or -ītīvus; see -ite2, -ive
Related Words
- -ive
- cognoscitive
- dispositive
-itivea suffix of adjectives and nouns of adjectival origin, as in definitive, fugitive.
[Latin -itīvus, -ītīvus]-itive
suffix
- (forming adjectives) equivalent to
-ATIVE (as in genitive, positive)［构成形容词］ 同-ATIVE （如genitive, positive）.
词源
from French -itif, -itive or Latin -itivus （from past participial stems ending in -it）.
☞ -ive, -ative, -itive
后缀：-itive [形容词后缀]
表示“...的”，意义同-ive
compositive 合成的，组成的
suppositive 想象的，假定的
additive 添加的
sensitve 敏感的
competitive 比赛的，竞争的
partitive 区分的，分隔的
punitive 惩罚性的
definitive 决定的，确定的
primitive 原始的，简单的