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§247. Nominal Adjectives

Adjectives of various meanings, but signifying in general made of or belonging to, are formed from nouns by means of the suffixes—

-eus, -ius, -āceus, -īcius, -āneus (-neus), -ticus

aur-eus, golden;aurum, gold.
patr-ius, paternal;pater, a father.
uxōr-ius, uxorious;uxor, a wife.
ros-āceus, of roses;rosa, a rose.
later-īcius, of brick;later, a brick.
praesent-āneus, operating instantly;praesēns, present.
extr-āneus, external;extrā, without.
subterr-āneus, subterranean;sub terrā, underground.
salīg-neus, of willow;salix, willow.
volā-ticus, winged (volātus, a flight);volāre, to fly.
domes-ticus, of the house, domestic;domus, a house.
silvā-ticus, sylvan;silva, a wood.

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.