Ancient Greek affixes in Latin

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

Information from Magni (2017), who provides detailed argumentation for the borrowing process of this affix, and cites the examples given here from Adams (2013:564–565). There may be other affixes borrowed from Ancient Greek into Latin, but Magni (2017) focuses on this one only.

1 adjectivizer

  • -ĭnus ‘adjectivizer’, e.g. mĕl-ĭnus ‘made of honey’, cupressĭnus ‘made of cypress’, fungĭnus ‘made of mushroom’, laurĭnus ‘made of laurel’, nucĭnus ‘made of nut’, triticĭnus ‘made of wheat’