(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:34:12

-ive (?). [L. -ivus.]

An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to; as affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

 

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