-eo
Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Suffix
-eo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ea, masculine plural -ei, feminine plural -ee)
- used to form adjectives referring to the qualities of the root noun; -en, -eous, -ean
- used to form adjectives from materials or substances, indicating material composition:
- used to form relational adjectives from proper nouns:
Usage notes
- Some adjectives in -eo are borrowed directly from Latin and exhibit fossilized characteristics which are otherwise lost in the root noun:
- corpo (“body”) → corporeo (“bodily, corporeal”) (cfr. Latin corpor-, oblique stem of corpus)
- legno (“wood”) → ligneo (“wooden, made from wood”) (cfr. Latin lignum)
- oro (“gold”) → aureo (“golden, made of gold”) (cfr. Latin aurum)
- Ercole (“Hercules”) → erculeo (“Herculean, pertaining to Hercules”) (cfr. Latin Herculēs)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Latin -aeus, from Ancient Greek -αῖος (-aîos).
Pronunciation
Suffix
-eo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ea, masculine plural -ei, feminine plural -ee) -eo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -ei, feminine -ea)
- used to form adjectives and nouns expressing relation to the root noun; -an, -ean
- forming ethnonyms from place names:
- forming relational adjectives from proper nouns:
- forming relational adjectives from body parts:
Derived terms
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /e.oː/, [eoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.o/, [eo] (stressed on the antepenult)
Etymology 1
From Proto-Italic *-ēō, from earlier *-ējō, from verbs with Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti (stative suffix) in which the first person singular always ended in *-éh₁yoh₂.
Suffix
-eō (present infinitive -ēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- Forms stative verbs from adjectives.
Conjugation
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to"). It is also attested as having a rare sigmatic future passive indicative form ("will have been"), which is not attested in the plural for any verb.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Proto-Italic *-eō, from causative/frequentative verbs with Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti (causative suffix) in which the first person singular ended in *-éyoh₂.
Suffix
-eō (present infinitive -ēre); second conjugation, no perfect or supine stem
- (no longer productive) Forms causative verbs from primary (third conjugation and some fourth conjugation) verbs.
Conjugation
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to"). It is also attested as having a rare sigmatic future passive indicative form ("will have been"), which is not attested in the plural for any verb.
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Suffix
-eō
References
- Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
Spanish
Etymology 1
Suffix
-eo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ea, masculine plural -eos, feminine plural -eas)
- -eous; forms adjectives meaning resembling or having characteristics of the related term
Related terms
Etymology 2
Suffix
-eo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -eos)
- forms nouns from verbs suffixed with -ear, means 'action and effect'
Derived terms
Further reading
- “-eo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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