concatenative
/kənˈkæ.tə.nə.tɪv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.10 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Linked in a series or order of things depending on each other, as if linked together; successive.
adj
Example Sentences
- "In fact the titles could be anything – or (with some of the most puissant) no title at all, but they could all be identified as "flappers" by function: each one held arbitrary and concatenative veto over any attempted communication from the outside world to the Great Man who was the nominal superior of the flapper."
- "concatenative synthesis"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Proto-Italic *katesnā Latin catēna 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 catēnō Latin concatēnō Latin concatēnātus English concatenate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English concatenative From concatenate + -ive.