Timeline for Preventative vs. preventive
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| May 15, 2019 at 15:47 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added sumelic's comment as update, and corrected some mionor typos.
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| Aug 23, 2017 at 23:58 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Addde a brief update identifying the dictionary cited in the quotation from Seth Hurd.
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| Jul 7, 2017 at 20:02 | comment | added | herisson | I believe the "irregularity" of the formation is based on Latin forms of verbs. Usually, "-at-" occurs in Latin verbs of the first conjugation, as part of the past-participle or supine stem. E.g. "represent" comes from Latin "representare", supine "representatum". But "prevent" comes from a Latin word of the fourth conjugation, "praevenire", supine "praeventum". | |
| Jan 2, 2016 at 21:21 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Minor copyedit changes.
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| Jul 13, 2015 at 20:31 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added a section on early dictionary coverage of 'preventative' & a Conclusions section
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| Feb 1, 2015 at 0:48 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2014 at 15:14 | history | edited | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 28, 2013 at 0:33 | history | answered | Sven Yargs | CC BY-SA 3.0 |