Adjective: normative
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more normative |
| Superlative | most normative |
Sample Sentences
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normative behaviour
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normative grammar
Adjectives inflected like normative
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
4. Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.
5. Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō
6. Ancient Greek γιγνώσκω (gignṓskō)
7. Proto-Indo-European *-mṓ
8. Ancient Greek -μων (-mōn)
9. Ancient Greek γνώμων (gnṓmōn)bor.
10. Etruscanbor.?
11. Latin norma
12. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
13. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
14. Proto-Indo-European *-tós
15. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos
16. Proto-Italic *-ātos
17. Latin -ātuslbor.
18. English -ate
19. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
20. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
21. Latin -īvus
22. Old French -ifbor.
23. Middle English -yf
24. English -ive
25. English -ative
26. English normative
27. From Latin norma + -ative. Compare French normatif. See: French Adjectives '
normatif'.