Etymology

exhaustive

ex·hau·stive
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Today it means: Including every possible element: fully comprehensive. Full definition →

Medieval Latin exhaustīvus ← Latin exhaustus ← Proto-Italic *auziō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  3. Proto-Italic*eks
  4. Latinex
  5. Latinex-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*h₂ews-ye-ti
  8. Proto-Italic*auziō
  9. Latinhauriō
  10. Latinexhauriō
  11. Latinexhaustus
  12. Medieval Latinexhaustīvus
  13. English todayexhaustive

Borrowed from Medieval Latin exhaustīvus. By surface analysis, exhaust + -ive.

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