-ivus
See also: Ivuš
Latin
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European *-iHwós, an extended form of *-wós. Cognate with Ancient Greek -εῖος (-eîos) (whence also some Latin forms in -ēus).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.wus/, [ˈiː.wʊs]
Suffix
-īvus m (feminine -īva, neuter -īvum); first/second declension
- Adjective suffix.
- Added to the perfect passive participial stem of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning “doing” or “related to doing”
- agō → āctus → āctīvus
- stō → status → statīvus
- Less frequently added to noun stems
- fēstum → fēstīvus
- fūrtum → fūrtīvus
- Added to the perfect passive participial stem of verbs, forming a deverbal adjective meaning “doing” or “related to doing”
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -īvus | -īva | -īvum | -īvī | -īvae | -īva | |
| Genitive | -īvī | -īvae | -īvī | -īvōrum | -īvārum | -īvōrum | |
| Dative | -īvō | -īvae | -īvō | -īvīs | -īvīs | -īvīs | |
| Accusative | -īvum | -īvam | -īvum | -īvōs | -īvās | -īva | |
| Ablative | -īvō | -īvā | -īvō | -īvīs | -īvīs | -īvīs | |
| Vocative | -īve | -īva | -īvum | -īvī | -īvae | -īva | |
Derived terms
- -īvius
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Descendants
- Catalan: -iu
- Old French: -if
- French: -if
- → Middle English: -yf
- English: -ive, -iff, -y
- Italian: -ivo, -io
- Portuguese: -ivo
- Romanian: -iv, -iu
- Spanish: -ivo