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-ive
sufix forming adjectives from verbs, meaning "pertaining to, tending to," in some cases from Old French
-if
, but usually directly from Latin
-ivus
. In some words borrowed from French at an early date it has been reduced to
-y
(as in
hasty
,
tardy
).