constative

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to an utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

Noun

• An utterance relaying information and likely to be regarded as true or false.

Origin

• Coined to translate the German konstatierend, using cōnstāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin verb cōnstō, suffixed with the English -ive, suggesting a hypothetical Latin etymon of the form *cōnstātīvus.