English
adversative
Adversative comes from Latin adversativus ‘of conjunctions, expressing opposition’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadversativus‘of conjunctions, expressing opposition’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992adversative
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEadversativus‘of conjunctions, expressing opposition’
- Englishearliest quotation 1992adversative
Earliest quotation: 1992, Raymond F. Collins, Divorce in the New Testament: “In Matthew's Q-source, this short sentence may have been…”
Every English word from Latin adversativus
Today it means
adj Expressing opposition or difference.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin adversativus / adversative