Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin .

Pronunciation edit

  • Rhymes: -o

Suffix edit

 m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ons)

  1. forms diminutives of nouns
    castell (castel) + ‎ → ‎Castelló (city in Valencia)
    mitja (stocking) + ‎ → ‎mitjó (sock)

Suffix edit

(adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ona, masculine plural -ons, feminine plural -ones)

  1. forms diminutives of adjectives
    petit + ‎ → ‎petitó

Galician edit

Etymology edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese -oo, from Latin -olus, and extension of -lus. Cognate with Spanish -uelo.

Pronunciation edit

Suffix edit

 m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ós)

  1. (archaic) forms a diminutive or related noun, usually from masculine nouns
    Synonyms: -elo, -iño, -olo
    faceira (cheek) + ‎ → ‎faceiró (pillow)

Derived terms edit

From

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Related terms edit

Hungarian edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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Suffix edit

  1. (present-participle suffix) -ing (added to a verb to form the present participle)
    olvas (to read) + ‎ → ‎olvasó (reading)
    Hol van az olvasószemüvegem?Where are my reading glasses?
Usage notes edit
  • (present-participle suffix) Variants:
    is added to back-vowel verbs
    is added to front-vowel verbs

Etymology 2 edit

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Suffix edit

  1. (diminutive suffix) Added to a shortened form of a noun to derive a diminutive noun.
    Katalin (Catherine)Kató (Cathy)
Usage notes edit
  • (diminutive suffix) Variants:
    is added to back-vowel verbs
    is added to front-vowel verbs
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See also edit

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

Likely influenced by ending of loanwords such as e.g. limbó, lottó, lúdó, póló (all names of games), as well as shortened words such as bíó (from Danish bio, a clipping of biograf), which already had -ó- (-o-) in them before being shortened. Perhaps derived from English -o. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Needs more on different semantic categories and parts of speech, e.g. proper names and adjectives; a timeline of developments would also be nice

Pronunciation edit

Suffix edit

 n

  1. (informal) a suffix used to create colloquial shortenings, usually consisting of the first syllable of the word + (these can be nouns, adjectives, and, more rarely, adverbs)

Derived terms edit

nouns

adjectives

adverbs

interjections

Slovincian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *-ovъ. Compare Kashubian -ów, Polish -ów.

Pronunciation edit

Suffix edit

  1. forms possessive adjectives from nouns
    Synonym: -yn

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Further reading edit

Spanish edit

Etymology edit

From Vulgar Latin *-āut, from Latin -āvit. Compare Galician and Portuguese -ou.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈo/ [ˈo]
  • Rhymes: -o
  • Syllabification:

Suffix edit

  1. a suffix indicating the third-person singular indicative preterite of a verb in -ar