Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Subjunctive has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:
a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible
Ellipsis of subjunctive mood.
Inflected to indicate that an act or state of being is possible, contingent or hypothetical, and not a fact.
The word comes from the Latin subjunctīvus, meaning "serving to join" or "connecting." It is derived from the verb subjungere, which combines sub ("under") and jungere ("to join").