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Diachronically, perhaps by no other route than haplology from quantitative; only by surface analysis (but not historically), quant + -i- + -tive.
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Diachronically, perhaps by no other route than haplology from quantitative; only by surface analysis (but not historically), quant + -i- + -tive.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.