vetitive

Meanings

1. Expressing a wish that something will not happen, as in "May we never experience such hardship".

1. An element of language expressing a wish that something will not happen.

Etymology

Pseudo-Latinism, derived from **vetitīvus (“prohibitive”), an unattested adjective formed from Classical Latin vetitus (“prohibited”, perfect passive participle of vetō (“to prohibit”)) + -īvus (relational adjective suffix), by analogy with English vetative, from Ecclesiastical Latin vetātīvus (“prohibitive”), from vetātus (“prohibited”), an alternative form of vetitus derived by treating vetō as a regular first conjugation verb, rather than irregular as it was during the Classical period. By surface analysis, veto + -ive.