English
lenitive
Lenitive comes from Latin lēnītus ‘softened’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElēnītus‘softened’
- Englishearliest quotation 1688lenitive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CElēnītus‘softened’
- Englishearliest quotation 1688lenitive
Earliest quotation: 1688, David Hume, The History of England in Three Volumes: “It is now full time to free him from…”
Formed from -ive
Every English word from Latin lēnītus
Today it means
adj Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin lēnītus / lenitive