Jussives

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A grammatical mood used to express commands, requests, or permissions within various languages
2. referring to expressions that indicate what one wishes to happen or desires to be accomplished
3. a form dealing with directive expressions in linguistic structures

Etymology: "Jussives" is the plural of "jussive," a noun for a grammatical mood that expresses a command or order. The word is built from the Latin "jussus," the past participle of "jubeō," meaning "to order" or "command," with the English suffix "-ive" added to form an adjective-turned-noun. The Latin verb is itself related to "iūs," meaning "law" or "order," so the core idea behind the term is authority: a grammatical form that carries the force of someone in charge telling someone else what to do.