jussive

Meanings

Adjective

• Of or in the jussive mood (see below)

Noun

• The jussive mood, a verb inflection used to indicate a command, permission or agreement with a request; an instance of a verb so inflected.
• A verbal mood of vague or miscellaneous senses, occurring after some particles and in conditional clauses.

Related

Similar words

• apocopate

Origin

• From Latin jubeō (variant of iubeō), 'to order, command'. Related to Latin iūs, 'law, order'.