-ius
Translingual
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-ius
- Latinizing suffix
- suffix for making genera eponymous of a male person
Derived terms
[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [i.ʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [i.us] (stressed on the antepenult)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Old Latin -ios, from Proto-Italic *-i(j)os, from Proto-Indo-European *-yós. Cognate with Ancient Greek -ῐος (-ĭos).
Suffix
[edit]-ius (feminine -ia, neuter -ium); first/second-declension suffix
- (relational) forming adjectives from nouns
- ending of most Classical Latin 'nomina gentilicia' (family names or surnames, shared by the members of a gens)
- suffix forming patronymic cognomina
- Synonyms: -īnus, -ānus, -iānus
- Cōnstāns + -ius → Cōnstantius
- (New Latin) suffix for Latinizing surnames
- Synonym: -us
Usage notes
[edit]The suffix -ius is added to a noun to form an adjective indicating "made of" or "belonging to" that noun.
- Examples:
In taxonomics,[1] out of analogy with ancient Roman nomina gentilicia, this suffix is added to surnames ending in a consonant other than the ending -er and, sometimes, replacing a mute final -e.
- Examples:
- French Descartes + -ius → Cartesius
- German Leibniz + -ius → Leibnitius
- German Schmalz + -ius → Smalcius
- English Shakespeare + -ius → Shakespeārius
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -ius | -ia | -ium | -iī | -iae | -ia | |
| genitive | -iī | -iae | -iī | -iōrum | -iārum | -iōrum | |
| dative | -iō | -iae | -iō | -iīs | |||
| accusative | -ium | -iam | -ium | -iōs | -iās | -ia | |
| ablative | -iō | -iā | -iō | -iīs | |||
| vocative | -ie | -ia | -ium | -iī | -iae | -ia | |
Synonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Etymology: The Latinization of Modern Surnames for Species Names (July 29th), 29.07.2014, https://iam-discite.tumblr.com/post/93215833830/etymology-the-latinization-of-modern-surnames-for
- “-ius” on page 986/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Italic *-jos.
Suffix
[edit]-ius
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of -ior (comparative degree suffix)
Suffix
[edit]-ius
- forms comparative adverbs
Etymology 3
[edit]From Proto-Italic *-osjos, itself from Proto-Indo-European *-ósyo (genitive case suffix) secondarily marked with the genitive *-s.
Suffix
[edit]-ius
- the regular genitive singular suffix for most pronouns
Usage notes
[edit]Like 3d- and 4th-declension, and unlike 1st- and 2nd-declension forms, has one form for all genders. A gendered adjective option also exists for cuius.
- Translingual terms derived from Old Latin
- Translingual terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Translingual terms borrowed from Latin
- Translingual terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Translingual terms derived from Latin
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- Translingual suffixes
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin terms inherited from Old Latin
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic
- Latin terms derived from Old Latin
- Latin lemmas
- Latin suffixes
- Latin adjective-forming suffixes
- Latin first and second declension suffixes
- Latin relational adjectives
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin suffix forms
- Latin adverb-forming suffixes