connective

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
noun an instrumentality that connects
adjective connecting or tending to connect

For connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.

Though excessively primitive and archaic in some respects, the thing had a set of gangliar centers and connectives arguing the very extremes of specialized development. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft

conjunction, conjunctive, continuative

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