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The -ous > -osity words seem to come from the Latin pattern -ōsus > -ōsitās (e.g. fābulōsus > fābulōsitās), while the -ous > -ity words came from -us > -itās. So -ous in English corresponds to two Latin endings -us and -ōsus (technically the latter is not an ending but a part of the stem plus the ending -us).--
The Latin word vīrus was a neuter noun of the second declension, but neuter second declension nouns ending in -us (rather than -um) are rare enough that inferring rules is difficult. (One rare attested plural, pelage as a plural of pelagus , is borrowed from Greek, so does not give guidance for virus .)
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary. There are a few general rules about how they combine.
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information (derivational/lexical ...
The plurals of the names of fishes either take the ending -s or is the same as the singular. Other nouns that have identical singular and plural forms include: craft (meaning 'vessel'), including aircraft , watercraft , spacecraft , hovercraft (but in the sense of a skill or art, the plural is regular, crafts )
For a comprehensive and longer list of English suffixes, see Wiktionary's list of English suffixes. Subcategories. ... -ous-penia-phobia-scope-ster-tania-ussy-yne *
The following is an alphabetical list of Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes commonly used in the English language from P to Z. See also the lists from A to G and from H to O.
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