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germinative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.04 in modern English

Syllables
ger-mi-na-tive
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to germination

adj

Having the ability to germinate

Etymology

Etymology tree English germinate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English germinative From germinate + -ive. From oblique stem of Latin germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”) + -ate, from germinātus (“sprouted, budded, grown”), past participle of germinō (“to sprout, bud, grow”), from germen, germinis (“shoot, sprout, bud”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more germinative (comparative) most germinative (superlative)

Derived Forms

germinatively postgerminative pregerminative

Questions

What does germinative mean?
Of or pertaining to germination
Where does germinative come from?
It is traced to Latin.

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