-ium

Signification (Anglais)

1. (declension-2, morpheme, neuter) Suffix used to form abstract nouns, sometimes denoting offices and groups. May no longer be productive.
2. (New-Latin, declension-2, morpheme, neuter) Suffix appended to form names of chemical elements.

Concepts

-é

Synonymes

-ia

-tas

Traductions

-heit

-keit

-nis

-y

-à

-heid

-nis

-idade

-ia

-tad

-ia

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[i.ũː]

Étymologie (Anglais)

From -ius (suffix forming adjectives): as a nominal suffix (Suffix 1), a substantivisation of its neuter forms; as an adjectival suffix (Suffix 2), regularly declined forms. Compare Ancient Greek -ιον (-ion), Proto-Germanic *-(i)ją, Proto-Slavic *-ьje.