-osus
-osus Wrtdtng: "Geruch oder Duft von habend"; im Sinne von "riecht wie …" hängt der Lateiner -osus an dem Namen dessen an, das den Geruch oder Duft hat.
From older -ōssus. Likely reflects a Proto-Indo-European derivation *-h₃d-s-o-s from an athematic s-stem *h₃éd-os ~ *h₃éd-esos (“smell”, whence odor), from the root *h₃ed- (“to smell”). Originally meaning “smelling like”, as evidenced possibly by hircōsus (“smelling like a goat”) and vinōsus(“fond of wine, *reeking of wine?”), it would have later generalised into “full of”. Compare related Ancient Greek -ώδης (-ṓdēs, “smelling like; full of”)and Old Armenian -ոտ (-ot) which underwent the same semantic change.
Alternatively, a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *-wénts has also been proposed, through a form such as *-wont-to- by suffixation of *-tós.This would make it a cognate of Ancient Greek -οῦς (-oûs).
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [oː.sʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [o.s̬us]
-ōsus (feminine -ōsa, neuter -ōsum); first/second-declension suffix
- used to form adjectives from nouns; -ose, -ous, -ful (full of or overly prone to)
- nervus (“sinew, energy”) + -ōsus → nervōsus (“sinewy; nervous; energetic”)
- racēmus (“cluster, bunch”) + -ōsus → racēmōsus (“clustering”)
- ventus (“wind”) + -ōsus → ventōsus (“windy”)
- lacrima (“teardrop”) + -ōsus → lacrimōsus (“weeping”, literally “teary; tearful”)
- lūmen (“light”) + -ōsus → lūminōsus (“bright”, literally “full of light”)
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -ōsus | -ōsa | -ōsum | -ōsī | -ōsae | -ōsa | |
| genitive | -ōsī | -ōsae | -ōsī | -ōsōrum | -ōsārum | -ōsōrum | |
| dative | -ōsō | -ōsae | -ōsō | -ōsīs | |||
| accusative | -ōsum | -ōsam | -ōsum | -ōsōs | -ōsās | -ōsa | |
| ablative | -ōsō | -ōsā | -ōsō | -ōsīs | |||
| vocative | -ōse | -ōsa | -ōsum | -ōsī | -ōsae | -ōsa | |