-icius
Latin
Alternative forms
- -ītius
Suffix
-īcius (feminine -īcia, neuter -īcium); first/second-declension suffix
- forms adjectives, nearly always by attaching to past participles; implies a more permanent state of affairs than the corresponding participle would suggest
- (Late Latin) attaches to past participles to form adjectives meaning '-able', 'meant for', or similar
Derived terms
Latin terms suffixed with -icius (long)
Descendants
- Inherited:
- Catalan: -ís
- Italian: -iccio
- ⇒ Old French: -eiz, -eice
- French: -is, -isse
- Portuguese: -iço
- Spanish: -izo
- Sicilian: -izzu
- Borrowed:
- → Catalan: -ici
- → English: -itious, -icious
- → French: -ice
- → Italian: -izio
- → Portuguese: -ício
- → Spanish: -icio
Etymology 2
From -icus + -ius, both also adjective-forming suffixes.
Alternative forms
- -itius
Suffix
-icius (feminine -icia, neuter -icium); first/second-declension suffix
- forms adjectives by attaching to adjectives or nouns; often denotes magistrates or sociolegal ranks
Derived terms
Latin terms suffixed with -icius (short)
Descendants
- Inherited:
- Balkans:
- Aromanian: -ets
- Romanian: -eț
- Italy:
- Italian: -eccio
- Sicilian: -izzu
- Venetian: -ezzo
- Balkans:
- Borrowed:
- → Catalan: -ici
- → English: -itious, -icious
- → French: -ice
- → Italian: -izio
- → Portuguese: -ício
- → Spanish: -icio
References
- Fruyt, Michèle. 2011. Word-formation in Classical Latin. In Clackson, James (ed.), A companion to the Latin language. Oxford: Blackwell. Page 164.
- Malkiel, Yakov. 1983. Alternatives to the classic dichotomy family tree/wave theory? The Romance evidence. In Rauch, Irmengard & Carr, Gerald F. (eds.), Language Change, 192–256. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. §4.
- Malkiel, Yakov. 1992. Diachronic studies in lexicology, affixation, phonology: Edita and inedita, 1979–1988. Amsterdam: J. Benjamins. Pages 146–149.
- Rohlfs, Gerhard. 1969. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti: Sintassi e formazione delle parole. Turin: Einaudi. §§1038–1039.