What are the Latin root words for the English words "imperative" and "declarative"? What are their respective meanings?
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2Welcome! These sorts of questions can be pretty easily answered with online tools like etymonline.com – see, for example, their entry on imperative. Is that what you are looking for? Or is there something more specific about your question? – Nathaniel is protesting Aug 15 '16 at 20:54
Etymonline.com offers this for imperative:
from Late Latin imperativus "pertaining to a command," from imperat-, past participle stem of imperare "to command, requisition," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" + parare "prepare"
For declarative, it points to the entry on declare:
from Latin declarare "make clear, reveal, disclose, announce," from de- intensive prefix + clarare "clarify," from clarus "clear"
answered Aug 15 '16 at 21:01
