English
mandative
From mandate + -ive.
Formed from mandate + -ive
Proto-Italic *manus ‘hand’
Proto-Italic *manuðō ‘to hand over’
Latin mandō ‘to commit to one's charge, order, command,…’
Latin neuter
Latin mandātum ‘a charge, order, command, commission, injunction’
English mandate
Today it means
adj Indicates the quality of being a command, or being related to the command.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / mandative