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§252. Verbal Adjectives

Adjectives expressing passive qualities, but occasionally active, are formed by means of the suffixes—

-ilis, -bilis, -ius, -tilis (-silis)

frag-ilis, frail;frangere (FRAG), to break.
nō-bilis, well known, famous;nōscere (GNO), to know.
exim-ius, choice, rare (cf. ē-greg-ius);eximere, to take out, select.
ag-ilis, active;agere, to drive.
hab-ilis, handy;habēre, to hold.
al-tilis, fattened (see note);alere, to nourish.

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.