Where does “affective” come from?
affective (French) comes from French affectif, from Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, from Latin afficiō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor.
affective (French): feminine singular of affectif
Definitions
- feminine singular of affectif
Ancestry of “affective”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | affectif | emotional, affective |
| 2 | Latin | affectivus | affective; of willing or desiring |
| 3 | Latin | affectus | affection, mood, emotion, feeling; affection,... |
| 4 | Latin | afficiō | to cause someone to experience something; to visit, inflict, bestow |
| 5 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 6 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 7 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 8 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |