English
protestive
From protest + -ive.
Formed from protest + -ive
Latin testis ‘witness’
Latin testor ‘to testify’
Latin prōtestor ‘to declare publicly’
Old French protester
Middle English protesten
English protest
Today it means
adj Expressing protest.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “protestive”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / protestive