selectively

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English selective

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English selectively

From selective + -ly.

Adverb

selectively (comparative more selectively, superlative most selectively)

1. In a selective manner, only affecting or applying to some selected cases.
   • 2006, Markus Jakobsson, Steven Myers, Phishing and Countermeasures, page 128:

     Our prototype implements a basic pharming attack to selectively misresolve the client domain name requests.

Derived terms

• hepatoselectively
• nonselectively
• photoselectively
• selectively mute
• superselectively

Translations

in a selective manner

• Catalan: selectivament
• Finnish: valikoivasti (fi)
• Galician: selectivamente
• Portuguese: seletivamente
• Slovak: selektívne
• Spanish: selectivamente