-osus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Old Latin -ōsos, from *-ōnt-to-s, from Proto-Italic *-owonssos, from *-o-wont-to-s. The last form is a combination of two Proto-Indo-European suffixes: Proto-Indo-European *-went-, *-wont- and Proto-Indo-European *-to-.[1] See -entus and Ancient Greek -εις (-eis).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈoː.sus/, [ˈoːs̠ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.sus/, [ˈɔːs̬us]
Suffix edit
-ōsus (feminine -ōsa, neuter -ōsum); first/second-declension suffix
Usage notes edit
The suffix -ōsus is added to a noun to form an adjective indicating an abundance of that noun.
- Examples:
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | -ōsus | -ōsa | -ōsum | -ōsī | -ōsae | -ōsa | |
Genitive | -ōsī | -ōsae | -ōsī | -ōsōrum | -ōsārum | -ōsōrum | |
Dative | -ōsō | -ōsō | -ōsīs | ||||
Accusative | -ōsum | -ōsam | -ōsum | -ōsōs | -ōsās | -ōsa | |
Ablative | -ōsō | -ōsā | -ōsō | -ōsīs | |||
Vocative | -ōse | -ōsa | -ōsum | -ōsī | -ōsae | -ōsa |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Descendants
- Aromanian: -os, -osu
- Asturian: -osu
- Catalan: -ós
- Old French: -us, -eus, -eux, -os, -ous
- Friulian: -ôs
- Galician: -oso
- Italian: -oso
- Occitan: -ós
- Portuguese: -oso
- Romanian: -os
- Sardinian: -osu, -ossu
- Sicilian: -usu
- → Maltese: -uż
- Spanish: -oso
- Venetian: -oxo, -óxo
- → Proto-Brythonic: *-ʉs
- → French: -ose
References edit
- ^ Jean Haudry, L'indo-européen, p. 58