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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "us"
Translingual
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin -us.
Suffix
-us m
- (taxonomy) Used to form taxonomic names.
Derived terms
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English
- Wiktionary does not have any English dictionary entry for this term. This is because the term has not yet been shown to be attested in a way that satisfies our criteria for inclusion.
- Some information about this term is available in our appendix Appendix:Glossary#hypercorrect.
- You can help us collect durably archived uses of this word at Citations:-us.
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Ainu
Pronunciation
Suffix
-us (Kana spelling ウㇱ)
- -y, -ful, -ous, -ose
- (An adjective-forming suffix meaning ‘full of’ or ‘characterized by’ something; often conveys abundance or a plentiful amount of the base noun.)
- kemuna (“hair, fur”) + -us → kemunaus (“hairy, fluffy”)
- upas (“snow”) + -us → upasus (“snowy”)
- turu (“filth, dirty”) + -us → turuus (“horrendous, disgusting”)
Antonym: -po
Derived terms
Category Ainu terms suffixed with -us not found
Cornish
Etymology
From Middle Cornish -us, from Old Cornish -us, from Proto-Brythonic *-ʉs, from Latin -ōsus. Cognate with Breton and Welsh -us.
Suffix
-us
Derived terms
Esperanto
Etymology
The Esperanto suffixes -as, -is, -os, and -us are related and appear to have been inspired by previous language projects:
- This play of vowels is not an original idea of Zamenhof's: -as, -is, -os are found for the three tenses of the infinitive in Faiguet's system of 1765; -a, -i, -o without a consonant are used like Z's -as, -is, -os by Rudelle (1858); Courtonne in 1885 had -am, -im, -om in the same values, and the similarity with Esperanto is here even more perfect than in the other projects, as -um corresponds to Z's -us. —An International Language (1928)
In addition, the u of -us is likely to be related to -u.
Pronunciation
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Suffix
-us
- Ending of the conditional in verbs.
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Estonian
Etymology
A merger of Proto-Finnic *-us (in the first sense) and Proto-Finnic *-uc (in the second sense). Cognate with Finnish -us.
Suffix
-us (genitive -use, partitive -ust)
- Derives nouns from verbs.
- armastama "to love" → armastus "love"
- võistlema "to compete" → võistlus "competition"
- joonistama "to draw" → joonistus "a drawing"
- Derives nouns from adjectives.
Declension
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