On Jun 12, 2008, at 11:47, David in Ballarat wrote:
The "ive" ending is usually reserved for adjectives. Know any other similar examples of nouns?
Prerogative. Palliative. Motive. All function as both nouns and adjectives, as does "detective". I think all of them are, probably, of French origin and ended, originally, in -if. One of these days, who knows, we may be having an "aperitive" in the afternoon :)
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