Etymology

For connexive, borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#CONNECTIVECategory:English terms derived from Latin#CONNECTIVE connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəˈnɛktɪv/Category:English 3-syllable words#CONNECTIVECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CONNECTIVE

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• Rhymes: -ɛktɪvCategory:Rhymes:English/ɛktɪv#CONNECTIVECategory:Rhymes:English/ɛktɪv/3 syllables#CONNECTIVE

Adjective

connective (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#CONNECTIVECategory:English adjectives#CONNECTIVECategory:English uncomparable adjectives#CONNECTIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CONNECTIVECategory:Pages with entries#CONNECTIVECategory:Pages with 1 entry#CONNECTIVE

1. Serving or tending to connect; connecting.
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     Society is doomed to an ignominious death as soon as the connective tissue of institutions and the ossified material of officialdom with its rank growth of unyielding red tape and formalism begin to spread, choking, and strangling the free, personal life of the individual.

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Noun

connective (plural connectives)Category:English lemmas#CONNECTIVECategory:English nouns#CONNECTIVECategory:English countable nouns#CONNECTIVECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CONNECTIVECategory:Pages with entries#CONNECTIVECategory:Pages with 1 entry#CONNECTIVE

1. That which connects.
2. (logicCategory:en:Logic#CONNECTIVE) A function that operates on truth values to give another truth value.
   • 2008 October 8, Holger Andreas, “Another Solution to the Problem of Theoretical Terms”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:

     Condition iii) ensures that the truth-rules for the sentential connectives and quantifiers are satisfied within one and the same valuation ν_s.

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3. (grammarCategory:en:Grammar#CONNECTIVE) A word used to connect words, clauses and sentences, most commonly applied to conjunctions.
4. (botanyCategory:en:Botany#CONNECTIVE) The tissue which connects the locules of an anthers together.
5. (anatomyCategory:en:Anatomy#CONNECTIVE, zoologyCategory:en:Zoology#CONNECTIVE) A connective tissue.

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “connective”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “connective”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.