-vus
See also: vus and VUS
Latin
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European perfect active participle suffix *-wós.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /wus/, [wʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vus/
Suffix
-vus
- Alternative form of -uus
- arvus, clīvus, corvus, flāvus, vīvus
Usage notes
- Originally forming the perfect active participle, as in alvus (“entity having been nourished”), clīvus (“entity having leaned”), gnāvus (“having known”).
- The form -vus is used after vowels, l, and r, and -uus after all other other consonants, with the exception of qu. In this last case, the form -us is used.
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -vus | -va | -vum | -vī | -vae | -va | |
| Genitive | -vī | -vae | -vī | -vōrum | -vārum | -vōrum | |
| Dative | -vō | -vae | -vō | -vīs | -vīs | -vīs | |
| Accusative | -vum | -vam | -vum | -vōs | -vās | -va | |
| Ablative | -vō | -vā | -vō | -vīs | -vīs | -vīs | |
| Vocative | -ve | -va | -vum | -vī | -vae | -va | |
Derived terms
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