Etymology of the English suffix -ive

Derivations in English

locative, abjective, accelerative, accommodative, accumulative, adaptive, addictive, adhesive, adjunctive, adjustive, adumbrative, affinitive, afflictive, affricative, affrontive, agentive, agglutinative, aggregative, aggressive, alleviative, alliterative, allusive, alternative, amusive, anticipative, appetitive, appositive, appreciative, arrestive, ascensive, assaultive, associative, aversive, capacitive, caressive, circumspective, coercive, cohesive, collaborative, colligative, collusive, combative, combinative, commentative, conative, conducive, confederative, connective, consecutive, constitutive, consultative, contentive, contortive, contractive, contradictive, contrapositive, contrastive, creative, criminative, culminative, cumulative, decorative, deflective, degenerative, degressive, delusive, demarcative, denotative, denotive, depressive, depurative, derisive, detective, diffractive, diffusive, dilative, dismissive, dispersive, disruptive, distractive, divertive, durative, educative, effusive, ejective, elusive, embracive, emissive, emotive, enactive, erective, evasive, evincive, evolutive, exaggerative, excommunicative, execrative, exemplificative, exhaustive, exhilarative, expansive, expensive, explosive, extinctive, extractive, extrusive, factive, federative, fictive, fricative, fructificative, fruitive, germinative, gravitative, hesitative, hypotensive, illuminative, illusive, illustrative, impactive, imperfective, implicative, incursive, infusive, ingressive, initiative, innovative, instinctive, institutive, instructive, insulative, intermissive, interoceptive, interpretive, intoxicative, irrigative, irritative, irruptive, isolative, legislative, mediative, mensurative, obsessive, originative, percussive, placative, presentive, preteritive, preventive, profusive, progenitive, progressive, projective, promotive, protective, purposive, reactive, redemptive, redistributive, reductive, reduplicative, reflective, refutative, regressive, remunerative, replicative, reprobative, repulsive, resistive, resumptive, retrospective, selective, sportive, stimulative, submissive, subtractive, suggestive, supportive, surjective, ventilative, vituperative, volitive, appointive, preemptive, permittivity, reluctivity, pulsative, intrusive, compressive, resolutive, commutative

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Word found in Modern English