Etymology

generativist

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Today it means: A proponent of generative grammar or generative semantics Full definition →

English generative ← Middle English generatyve ← Latin genero
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
  3. Proto-Italic*genos
  4. Latingenus
  5. Latingenero
  6. Middle Englishgeneratyve
  7. Englishgenerative
  8. English todaygenerativist

From generative + -ist.

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