10 letters · 17 points in Scrabble
noun an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences
noun an instrumentality that connects
adjective connecting or tending to connect
originFor connexive, borrowed from Latin connexīvus. Displacement of x by ct in Latin loanwords is very common. Compare connect, connectivum, connection.
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