Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Generative has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
having the ability to produce or originate
"generative power"
"generative forces"
producing new life or offspring
"the reproductive potential of a species is its relative capacity to reproduce itself under optimal conditions"
"the reproductive or generative organs"
Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.
The word comes from Middle English and is formed by adding the suffix "-ive" to "generate." It originally described something that has the power or function of generating.