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Where does “substitutively” come from?

substitutively (English) comes from English substitutive, from English substitute, from Middle English substituten, from Latin substitutus, from Latin substituo, from Latin statuo, from Latin stātus, from Latin stō.

substitutively (English): In a substitutive manner

Definitions

  1. In a substitutive manner

Ancestry of “substitutively”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishsubstitutiveCharacteristic of, or serving as a substitute
2EnglishsubstituteTo use in place of something else, with the same...
3Middle Englishsubstituten—
4Latinsubstitutussubstituted
5LatinsubstituoI place next to, under, or instead of; I...
6LatinstatuoI set up, station; I establish, determine, fix; I...
7Latinstātus—
8Latinstō—
9Proto-Italicstaēōstand
10Proto-Indo-Europeansth₂éh₁yeti—
11Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-—
Every word from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- →