putatively

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English putative
Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.
Proto-Germanic *līkąder.
Proto-Germanic *-līkaz
Proto-Germanic *-ê
Proto-Germanic *-līkê
Proto-West Germanic *-līkē
Old English -līċe
Middle English -ly
English -ly
English putatively

    From putative + -ly.

    Pronunciation

    Adverb

    putatively (comparative more putatively, superlative most putatively)

    1. In a putative manner; according to belief.
      Near-synonyms: reportedly, reputedly, purportedly, rumoredly, supposedly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
      • 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
        Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept[.]
      • 2008, Harriet A. Washington, “Southern Discomfort”, in Medical Apartheid‎[1], Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, page 54:
        Whites who tried to live and work in West Africa, a climate putatively designed for blacks, died in droves [...]
      • 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22:
        To construct a phylogenetic tree, molecular biologists compare the differences in nucleotide sequences of many isolates of putatively related organisms.
      • 2021, United States Department of Agriculture, SYSTEMATICS OF HYPER-DIVERSE MOTH SUPERFAMILIES, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON AGRICULTURAL PESTS, INVASIVE SPECIES, BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS, AND FOOD SECURITY‎[2], archived from the original on 3 December 2025:
        The following are the focus of research: in the Pyraloidea (Subobjective 1.1) Ategumia, Desmia, Diaphania, Eulepte, Herpetogramma, Omiodes, Patania; in the Gelechioidea (Subobjective 1.2) genera within and putatively near the Recurvaria-group (Gelechiinae: Litini); in the Noctuoidea (Subobjective 1.3) fern-feeding Argyrosticta in relation to Callopistria, boundaries and composition of the Eriopinae, and erebid litter moths (Herminiinae).

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