innative
English
editEtymology
editFrom innate + -ive, after native.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editinnative (not comparable)
- (obsolete) native
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- His son shall make to his innative port
- (obsolete) innate
References
edit- “innative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.