-ium

Significado (Inglês)

  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.

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Pronunciado como (IPA)
[i.ũː]
Etimologia (Inglês)

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.

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