Origin: Latin suffix -ive
Transitive has 3 different meanings across 2 categories:
a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical
designating a verb that requires a direct object to complete the meaning
Making a transit or passage.
The word comes from the Latin trānsitīvus, which combines trāns meaning "across" with a form of eō meaning "to go." Originally, it described something that moves across or passes through.