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suffixive en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree English suffix Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English suffixive From suffix + -ive.

Meanings

  1. (dated, not-comparable) Forming words through the addition of a suffix or suffixes
    • The genius, in the French sense, of creole is its tendency to form phrases with a minimum of connectives, often through the use of suffixive combinations […] 2000, George Lang, Entwisted Tongues: Comparative Creole Literatures, →ISBN, page 216:

Relateds

affixive · suffixation · prefixive

Synonyms

suffixative