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§253. Verbal Adjectives

Verbal Adjectives that are Participial in meaning are formed with the suffixes—

-ndus, -bundus, -cundus

a. -ndus (the same as the gerundive ending) forms a few active or reflexive adjectives:—

secu-ndus, second (the following), favorable;sequī, to follow.
rotu-ndus, round (whirling)1;rotāre, to whirl.

b. -bundus, -cundus, denote a continuance of the act or quality expressed by the verb:—

vītā-bundus, avoiding;vītāre, to shun.
treme-bundus, trembling;tremere, to tremble.
mori-bundus, dying, at the point of death;morīrī, to die.
fā-cundus, eloquent;fārī, to speak.
fē-cundus, fruitful;root Fē, nourish.
īrā-cundus, irascible;cf. īrāscī, to be angry.

c. Here belong also the participial suffixes -minus, -mnus (cf. Greek -μενος), from which are formed a few nouns in which the participial force is still discernible:—2

fē-mina, woman (the nourisher);root Fē, nourish.
alu-mnus, a foster-child, nursling;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.