English
subjective
Subjective comes from Latin subiectīvus.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubiectīvus
- Englishearliest quotation 2013subjective
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsubiectīvus
- Englishearliest quotation 2013subjective
Earliest quotation: 2013, Boundary problems: “Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be…”
Formed from subject + -ive
Latin subiciō ‘throw’
Latin subiectus ‘lying under or near’
Old French suget
Middle English subget
English subject
Every English word from Latin subiectīvus
Today it means
adj Formed, as in opinions, based upon a person's feelings or intuition, rather than upon observation or purely logical reasoning; coming more from within the observer than from observations of the external environment.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin subiectīvus / subjective