agentive
Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
Adjective
- Indicating an agent or agency (as -er in lexicographer).
- Pertaining to a grammatical agent that performs the action of the verb.
- On the other hand, she concedes that she has been able (in however limited a fashion) to take agentive actions to facilitate others’ socialization into and through Mandarin through programmatic activities she has...
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin agēnsder. English agent Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English agentive From agent + -ive.
Derived
agentively agentive nominalisation agentive nominalization agentivity interagentive nonagentive
Noun
- A word having an agentive construction.