English
adscriptive
Adscriptive comes from Latin adscriptivus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadscriptivus
- Englishearliest quotation 1842adscriptive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadscriptivus
- Englishearliest quotation 1842adscriptive
Earliest quotation: 1842, Henry Brougham: “Many estates peopled with crown peasants have been, according…”
Every English word from Latin adscriptivus
Today it means
adj Attached or annexed to the glebe or estate and transferable with it.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin adscriptivus / adscriptive