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suppletive
[ suh-plee-tiv, suhp-li-tiv ]
adjective
Grammar.
- serving as an inflected form of a word with a totally different stem, as went, the suppletive past of go.
- including one or more such forms:
a suppletive paradigm.
- characterized by the use of such forms:
suppletive inflection.
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of suppletive1
1810–20; < Medieval Latin ²õ³Ü±è±è±ôŧ³ÙÄ«±¹³Ü²õ, equivalent to Latin ²õ³Ü±è±è±ôŧ³Ù ( us ) (past participle of ²õ³Ü±è±è±ôŧ°ù±ð to fill up; suppletion ) + -Ä«±¹³Ü²õ -ive
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
However, when the processes of change fall into regular categories and patterns—retronyms or suppletive verbs like to be—they illuminate something bigger.
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