suppletive

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sup⋅ple⋅tive

[suh-plee-tiv, suhp-li-tiv]

–adjective Grammar.

1.	serving as an inflected form of a word with a totally different stem, as went, the suppletive past of go.

2.	including one or more such forms: a suppletive paradigm.

3.	characterized by the use of such forms: suppletive inflection.

Origin:
1810–20; < ML supplētīvus, equiv. to L supplēt(us) (ptp. of supplēre to fill up; see suppletion ) + -īvus -ive

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