Etymograph

English

exessive

From ex- (“out of”) + essive.

Formed from ex- ‘out of’ + essive

Proto-Indo-European *eǵ-

Latin ex ‘out of, from’

English ex-

Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- ‘to be’

Latin esse

New Latin casus essīvus

English essive

The story

According to linguist Tiit-Rein Viitso, the case was originally called the excessive (derived from Latin excessus (‘departure’)), which would make the spelling exessive a case of folk etymology.folk etymology The source marks this as unproven or a folk etymology. Quoted, not asserted.

Today it means

adj Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.

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