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§248. Nominal Adjectives

Adjectives denoting pertaining to are formed from nounstems with the suffixes—

-ālis, -āris, -ēlis, -īlis, -ūlis

nātūr-ālis, natural;nātūra, nature.
popul-āris, fellow-countryman;populus, a people.
patru-ēlis, cousin;patruus, uncle.
host-īlis, hostile;hostis, an enemy.
cur-ūlis, curule;currus, a chariot.

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.