English
prescriptive
Prescriptive comes from Latin praescriptivus ‘relating to a legal exception’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraescriptivus‘relating to a legal exception’
- Englishearliest quotation 1988prescriptive
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEpraescriptivus‘relating to a legal exception’
- Englishearliest quotation 1988prescriptive
Earliest quotation: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar: “For one thing, spoken language tends to be less…”
Every English word from Latin praescriptivus
Today it means
adj Of or pertaining to prescribing or enjoining, especially an action or behavior based on a norm or standard.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin praescriptivus / prescriptive