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Subject: Re: [office-accessibility] "Assistive?"

From: robert_weir@us.ibm.com
To: office-accessibility@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:58:50 -0400

The Oxford English Dictionary rates it as a rare word, meaning an assistant, from the medieval Latin "assistivus", as in "assistiva mulier', a kind of nun.

So, the technical meaning obviously not in the dictionary yet.

-Rob

Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann@Sun.COM> wrote on 07/27/2006 11:38:13 AM: > I can't find this word in any of my dictionaries or translators - can you? > > Malte.

References:
- "Assistive?"
  - From: Malte Timmermann <Malte.Timmermann@Sun.COM>