§245. Nominal Adjectives
Adjectives meaning full of, prone to, are formed from nounstems with the suffixes—
-ōsus, -lēns, -lentus
| fluctu-ōsus, billowy; | fluctus, a billow. |
| form-ōsus, beautiful; | forma, beauty. |
| perīcul-ōsus, dangerous; | perīculum, danger. |
| pesti-lēns, pesti-lentus, pestilent; | pestis, pest. |
| vīno-lentus, vīn-ōsus, given to drink; | vīnum, wine. |
J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.