Noun: active
| Singular | active |
| Plural | actives |
Sample Sentences
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"Alumni could become more active in giving guidance and leadership to students. They act as sort of a 'maturity governor' on fraternities," notes Ratliff, citing surveys suggesting that fraternity actives presume mistakenly that alumni want hazing […] [1989, The Alcalde, volume 78, number 2, page 11:]
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Components are split into two broad segments: actives and passives. Active components like the vacuum tube and the transistor contain the power to generate and alter electrical signals. [2013, David Manners, Hitchhikers' Guide to Electronics in the '90s, page 36:]
Nouns inflected like active
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
5. Proto-Italic *agō
6. Latin agō
7. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
8. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
9. Latin -īvus
10. ▲
11. Ancient Greek ἐνεργητῐκός (energētĭkós)sl.
12. Latin āctīvusbor.
13. Old French actifbor.
14. Middle English actyf
15. English active
16. From Middle English actyf, from Old French actif, from Latin āctīv(us), from agere (“to do, to act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. By surface analysis, act + -ive. See: Middle English Nouns '
actyf', Latin Nouns '
activus'.