normative

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.

Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō

Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō)

Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ

Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)

Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn)bor.

Etruscanbor.?

Latin norma

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos

Proto-Italic *-ātos

Latin -ātuslbor.

English -ate

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin -īvus

Old French -ifbor.

Middle English -yf

English -ive

English -ative

English normative

From Latin norma +‎ -ative. Compare French normatif.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɔːmətɪv/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈnoɹmətɪv/, [-ɾɪv]

  • Audio (Colorado):

    (file)

• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈnoːmətɪv/, [-ɾɪv]
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈnoːmətəv/, [-ɾəv]
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mətɪv
• Hyphenation: norm‧at‧ive

Adjective

normative (comparative more normative, superlative most normative)

1. Of or pertaining to a norm or standard.
2. Conforming to a norm or norms.

   normative behaviour

3. Attempting to establish or prescribe a norm.

   normative grammar

Hyponyms

• prescriptive
• proscriptive

Derived terms

• ablenormative
• amatonormative
• antinormative
• Ashkenormative
• binormative
• cisheteronormative
• cisnormative
• counternormative
• dianormative
• endonormative
• exonormative
• heteronormative
• homonormative
• internormative
• metronormative
• mononormative
• neuronormative
• nonnormative
• normative economics
• normative ethics
• normative forecasting
• normative grammar
• normatively
• normativeness
• normative science
• normative state
• normative statement
• normative system
• normativism
• normativist
• normativity
• normativization
• normativize
• pornonormative
• queernormative
• repronormative
• socionormative
• transnormative

Related terms

• norm
• normal

Translations

of, pertaining to, or using a norm or standard

• Bulgarian: нормативен (normativen)
• Catalan: normatiu (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 规范的 (guīfànde)

• Czech: normativní (cs)
• Finnish: normatiivinen (fi)
• French: normatif (fr)
• Galician: normativo m
• German: normativ (de)
• Hungarian: normatív (hu)
• Irish: normatach
• Italian: normativo (it)
• Kazakh: нормативті (normatıyvti), нормативтік (normatıyvtik)
• Polish: normatywny (pl)
• Portuguese: normativo (pt)
• Romanian: normativ (ro)
• Russian: нормати́вный (ru) (normatívnyj)
• Spanish: normativo (es)
• Ukrainian: нормати́вний (uk) (normatývnyj)

attempting to establish or prescribe a norm

• Czech: normativní (cs), normotvorný
• Dutch: normatief (nl)
• Polish: normatywny (pl), normotwórczy, dyrektywalny (pl)
• Russian: нормативный (ru) (normativnyj)
• Ukrainian: нормати́вний (uk) (normatývnyj)

Noun

normative (plural normatives)

1. A regulation imposed to preserve a norm.
   • 1990, Czechoslovak Economic Papers, number 28, page 42:

     Most important are the so-called economic normatives. They either specify the minimal efficiency of productive resources utilization or regulate the distribution of the enterprises revenue.

Anagrams

• avotermin

French

Adjective

normative

1. feminine singular of normatif

Italian

Noun

normative f

1. plural of normativa

Adjective

normative

1. feminine plural of normativo

Anagrams

• motivarne, terminavo, verminato, viramento

Swedish

Adjective

normative

1. definite natural masculine singular of normativ