accommodative

accommodative

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin com-
Proto-Indo-European *med-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Italic *medos
Latin modus
Latin commodusnom.
Latin commodum
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin commodō
Latin accommodō
Latin accommodātusbor.
English accommodate
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin -īvus
Old French -ifbor.
Middle English -yf
English -ive
English accommodative

    From accommodate + -ive.

    Pronunciation

    • (US) IPA(key): /əˈkɒm.əˌdeɪt.ɪv/

    Adjective

    accommodative (comparative more accommodative, superlative most accommodative)

    1. Supplying with or obliging; accommodating.
      • 2021, Jón Steinsson, Online Panel: A New Macroeconomics?, efip Research Brief, July 2021
        This fact points in a similar direction as the high MPC fact: macro stimulus can raise output substantially in circumstances when monetary policy is accommodative (e.g., at the ZLB).

    Derived terms

    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.