Etymology

constative

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Today it means: Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false. Full definition →

German konstatierend
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  1. German · derived fromkonstatierend
  2. English todayconstative

Coined to translate the German konstatierend, using cōnstāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin verb cōnstō (“to agree, correspond, or fit; to am certain, decided, or consistent”), suffixed with the English -ive, suggesting a hypothetical Latin etymon of the form *cōnstātīvus.

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