positivus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep

Proto-Indo-European *-o

Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó

Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó

Proto-Indo-European *teḱ-der.

Proto-Indo-European *tḱey-der.

Proto-Italic *sinō

Proto-Italic *pozinō

Old Latin *poznō

Latin pōnō

Proto-Indo-European *-wós

Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.

Latin īvus

Latin positīvus

From pōnō (“to put, place”) + īvus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɔ.sɪˈtiː.wʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [po.s̬iˈtiː.vus]

Adjective

positīvus (feminine positīva, neuter positīvum); first/second-declension adjective

1. positive
2. (grammar) positive (of an adjective, not comparative or superlative)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	positīvus	positīva	positīvum		positīvī	positīvae	positīva
genitive	positīvī	positīvae	positīvī		positīvōrum	positīvārum	positīvōrum
dative	positīvō	positīvae	positīvō		positīvīs
accusative	positīvum	positīvam	positīvum		positīvōs	positīvās	positīva
ablative	positīvō	positīvā	positīvō		positīvīs
vocative	positīve	positīva	positīvum		positīvī	positīvae	positīva

Descendants

• Catalan: positiu
• → Finnish: positiivinen
• Old French: positif
  • French: positif
  • → English: positive
• Galician: positivo
• Italian: positivo
• Occitan: positiu
• Portuguese: positivo
• Romanian: pozitiv
• Spanish: positivo

References

• “positivus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "positivus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “positivus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.