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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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Word History and Origins
Origin of suppletive1
1810–20; < Medieval Latin supplētīvus, equivalent to Latin supplēt ( us ) (past participle of supplēre to fill up; suppletion ) + -īvus -ive
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