SUBJUNCTIVE

I. adjective Etymology: Late Latin subjunctivus, from Latin subjunctus, past participle of subjungere to join beneath, subordinate Date: 1530 of, relating to, or constituting a verb form or set of verb forms that represents a denoted act or state not as fact but as contingent or possible or viewed emotionally (as with doubt or desire) , II. noun Date: 1622 the ~ mood of a language, a form of verb or verbal in the ~ mood