## Etymology
From suggest + -ive. Suggest is from Latin suggestus, past participle of suggerere ('to bring up, supply, prompt'), from sub- ('up, under') + gerere ('to carry, bring').

## AI Etymology
Suggestive comes from suggest + -ive. Suggest is from Latin suggestus, past participle of suggerere ('to bring up, supply, prompt'), from sub- ('up, under') + gerere ('to carry, bring'). The historical chain includes Latin sub and Latin gerere. The quoted older senses, "to bring up, supply, prompt", "up, under", and "to carry, bring", supply the semantic anchors for suggestive. The formation is best read as suffixal, compound, participial, and borrowed: the word suggestive carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a adj, "tending to suggest an idea, often something risqué". English derivatives include suggestively and suggestiveness; related English forms include suggest, suggestion, gesture, and digest. The result is a adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

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