- submissive (adj.)
[submissive 词源字典]
- 1580s, "inclined to submit, yielding to authority," from Latin submiss-, past participle stem of submittere (see submission) + -ive. Masochistic sexual sense is attested by 1969. As a noun in this sense, by 1985. Related: Submissively; submissiveness.[submissive etymology, submissive origin, 英语词源]