English

Alternative forms

• satiue (obsolete)

Adjective

sative ‎(not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Sown or planted; propagated by seed, shoot, or root; cultivated, not wild.
   • 1599, Henry Buttes, Dyets Drie Dinner, P4b:

     Tabacco… Translated out of India in the seed or roote; Natiue or satiue in our own fruitfullest soiles.

   • 1664, John Evelyn, Sylva; or, A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty’s Dominions (third edition, 1679), page 2:

     These [trees] we shall divide into the greater and more ceduous…and such as are sative and hortensial.

   • 1725, Bradley’s Family Dictionary, “Pine”:

     The wild Pine differs no otherwise from the Sative.

Related terms

• sativous
• sation

References

• NED VIII (Q–Sh; 1st ed.), part ii (S–Sh; 1914), page 124/1, “†Sa·tive, a.”

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /saˈtiː.we/

Adjective

satīve

1. vocative masculine singular of satīvus