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Where does “representative” come from?

Representative comes from Old French representatif, meaning one who represents or stands in place of another.

representative (English): Typical; having the same properties or interest...

Definitions

  1. Typical; having the same properties or interest...

Ancestry of “representative”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchrepresentatif—

Words derived from “representative”

  • representativeness
  • unrepresentative
  • representatively
  • representativity
  • nonrepresentative
  • misrepresentative
  • unrepresentativeness
  • reprezentatív
Every word from Old French representatif →