Etymology

frequentative

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Today it means: Serving to express repetition of an action. Full definition →

Middle English frequentatyf ← Late Latin frequentātīvus ← Latin frequentāre
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrekʷ-der.?
  2. Proto-Italic*frekʷents
  3. Latinfrequēns
  4. Latinfrequentāre
  5. Late Latinfrequentātīvus
  6. Middle Englishfrequentatyf
  7. English todayfrequentative

Inherited from Middle English frequentatyf, from Late Latin frequentātīvus, from Latin frequentāre (“to do or use often”), from frequēns (“often, regular, constant, repeated, assiduous”) + -ō. By surface analysis, frequent + -ative.

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