Latin edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Possibly an alternative form of the 'desiderative' suffix -turiō,[1] but this is disputed.[2][3] The spellings with two Rs seem to be older than those with a single R, based on manuscript evidence; none of the forms is attested in inscriptions.[4]

Pronunciation edit

Suffix edit

-urriō (present infinitive -urrīre, perfect active -urrīvī, supine -urrītum); fourth conjugation

  1. verbal suffix

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ C. M. Francken (1877) T. Macci Plauti Aulularia met aanteekeningen, page 47
  2. ^ Donaldson, John William (1860) Varronianus: A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of Ancient Italy and to the Philological Study of the Latin Language, page 499:
    The forms ligūrio or ligurrio, scaturio or scaturrio, and the two glossarial words vagurrit (=per otium vagatur) and flagurrit (=φλέγει), are not to be regarded as desideratives. They seem to be derived from nouns of the form of tellus, tellūris; compare scaturigo with prurigo from prurio, which must be a derivative from a word like psora, prora, prura or porra (cf. porrigo), analogous to the Greek ψώρα.
  3. ^ Donaldson, John William (1860) A complete Latin grammar for the use of students, 2nd edition, page 221
  4. ^ Weiss, Michael L., Compiled Addenda and Corrigenda for OHCGL, p. 79, n. 58