vetitive

Questions

What does vetitive mean?

Expressing a wish that something will not happen, as in "May we never experience such hardship".

Where does vetitive come from?

Pseudo-Latinism, derived from **vetitīvus (“prohibitive”), an unattested adjective formed from Classical Latin vetitus (“prohibited”, perfect passive participle of vetō (“to prohibit”)) + -īvus (relational adjective suffix), by analogy with English vetative, from Ecclesiastical Latin vetātīvus (“prohibitive”), from vetātus (“prohibited”), an alternative form of vetitus derived by treating vetō as a regular first conjugation verb, rather than irregular as it was during the Classical period. By surface analysis, veto + -ive.

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