abdicative

English

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Italic *ap

Latin abder.

Latin ab-

Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *déyḱs

Proto-Italic *-diks

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -dicōbf.

Latin dicō

Latin abdicō

Latin abdicātusbor.

English abdicate

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English abdicative

From abdicate + -ive.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæb.dəˌkeɪ.tɪv/, /ˈæb.dəˌkə.tɪv/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

abdicative (comparative more abdicative, superlative most abdicative)

1. (rare) Causing, or implying, abdication.

Translations

(rare) causing, or implying, abdication

• French: abdicatif (fr)
• German: abdikativ (de)
• Latin: abdicativus
• Portuguese: abdicativo

Etymology 2

From Latin abdicativus.

Noun

abdicative (plural abdicatives)

1. (logic) A reasoning from the negative
   • 1987, David Londey, The Logic of Apuleius:

     The fourth mood is that which brings together directly a particular abdicative from a particular dedicative and a universal abdicative, e.g., Some just thing is honourable, no honourable thing is base, therefore some just thing is not base.

French

Adjective

abdicative

1. feminine singular of abdicatif

Interlingua

Etymology

From abdicar +‎ -ative.

Adjective

abdicative (comparative plus abdicative, superlative le plus abdicative)

1. abdicative (causing, or implying, abdication)

References

• Alexander Gode (1951), Interlingua-English: A Dictionary of the International Language, New York: Storm Publishers, →OL

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Italic *ap

Latin abder.

Latin ab-

Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *déyḱs

Proto-Italic *-diks

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -dicōbf.

Latin dicō

Latin abdicō

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Latin abdicatīvus

Proto-Italic *-ēd

Old Latin -ēd

Latin -ē

Latin abdicātīvē

From abdicatīvus (“negative”) + -ē.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ab.dɪ.kaːˈtiː.weː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ab.di.kaˈtiː.ve]

Adverb

abdicātīvē (not comparable)

1. negatively

Etymology 2

Adjective

abdicātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of abdicātīvus

References

• “abdicative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “abdicative”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.