-ive

Etymology
From, from (feminine ), from. Until the fourteenth century, all Middle English loanwords from Anglo-Norman ended in (compare, , ,  etc.). Under the influence of literary Neo-Latin, both languages introduced the form. Those forms that have not been replaced were subsequently changed to end in (compare, from , , from  etc.).

Like the Latin suffix -iō (genitive -iōnis), the Latin suffix -ivus is appended to the perfect passive participle to form an adjective of action.

Suffix

 * 1) An adjective suffix signifying relating or belonging to, of the nature of, tending to, or serving to; as: affirmative, active, conclusive, corrective, diminutive.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: -ief
 * Albanian: -iv
 * Asturian: -ivu
 * Azerbaijani: -ici
 * Basque: -ibo
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: -iv
 * Dutch:, -ieve
 * Finnish: -iivi, -iivinen
 * French:, -ive
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: -ív
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: -ive
 * Irish: -ach
 * Italian: -ivo, -iva, -ivi, -ive
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: -ivus, -iva, -ivum, -ivi, -ivae, -iva
 * Malay: -if
 * Maltese: -iv
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: -iv
 * Nynorsk: -iv
 * Occitan: -iu
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: -iv, -ivă
 * Russian: -и́вный
 * Serbo-Croatian: -ivan, -ivna, -ivno
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: -ibo
 * Turkish: -ici, -if
 * Yiddish: ־יוו