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recessive (adj.)
1670s, from Latin
recess-
, past participle stem of
recedere
(see
recede
) +
-ive
. Linguistics sense is from 1879; in genetics, 1900, from German
recessiv
(Mendel, 1865). Related:
Recessiveness
.
