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Braydon Moss
24 April, 13:19
What is the origin and meaning of the suffix ous?
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Jair Bishop
24 April, 13:48
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A suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense "possessing, full of" a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); - ous and its variant - ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannot be directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; ...
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