innative

English

Etymology

innate +‎ -ive, after native

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ɪˈneɪtɪv/
Rhymes: -eɪtɪv

Adjective

innative (not comparable)

(obsolete) native
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Fifth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
  His son shall make to his innative port
  The spelling has been modernized.
(obsolete) innate

References

“innative”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

Venitian

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