English
sative
Sative comes from Latin satīvus ‘that may be sown or planted’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsatīvus‘that may be sown or planted’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599sative
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsatīvus‘that may be sown or planted’
- Englishearliest quotation 1599sative
Earliest quotation: 1599, Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner: “Tabacco… Translated out of India in the seed or…”
Every English word from Latin satīvus
Today it means
adj Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin satīvus / sative