aperitive

Tending to open the bowels; aperient.

Adjective

  1. Tending to open the bowels; aperient.
  2. Serving as an apéritif: a pre-meal alcoholic drink.
    • She was looking, while so occupied, at the German group engaged in the garden, near by, with aperitive beer and disputation.... - 1904, Henry James, Fordham Castle:

Origin

Borrowed from Medieval Latin aperitivus, from Late Latin apertivus, from Latin aperio. Doublet of apéritif, from French.

Forms

more aperitive most aperitive

Noun

  1. Synonym of aperient.

    Synonyms: aperient

Forms

aperitives