flative

English

Etymology

From the Latin flātīvus, from flō (“I blow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfleɪtɪv/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪv

Adjective

flative (comparative more flative, superlative most flative)

1. (obsolete, Early Modern, rare) Producing farts; flatulent.
   • 1599, Henry Butts, Dyets dry dinner:

     Artichokes […] Please the taste: prouoke vrine and Venus: remoue flatiue humours: open obstructions: heate the entralls.

   • 1607, Antony Brewer, Lingua:

     Eat not too many of those apples, they be very flative.

   • 1659, Edmund Gayton, “XXX. Of Herbs and Plants”, in The art of longevity, page 63:

     What though [cabbage is] windy, Pepper will reform that tempest, and appease its flative storm.