-us

Signification (Anglais)

1. (form-of, morpheme, nominative, singular) suffix of nouns in the second declension.
2. (accusative, form-of, idiomatic, morpheme, nominative, singular, vocative) suffix of nouns in the second declension.
3. (morpheme) suffix of adjectives in the first/second declension.
4. (form-of, morpheme, nominative, singular) suffix of adjectives in the first/second declension.
5. (New-Latin, morpheme) suffix used to Latinize names ending in consonants.

Concepts

plus

Synonymes

plus

-ior

-or

-ius

Traductions

més

πιο

more

più

mais

más

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[ˈʊs]

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European *-os (adjectival ending). Cognate with Ancient Greek -ος (-os), Proto-Germanic *-az, Icelandic -ur, Sanskrit -अः (-aḥ), Proto-Slavic *-ъ.