-itus
Latin[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *-tós, suffix forming possessive adjectives from nouns (compare -ātus), combined with preceding material of uncertain origin (different words may have different sources of -ī-). According to one hypothesis, some words ending in -ītus are "decasuative" formations derived from former inflected noun forms that ended in -ī, such as the instrumental singular form of i-stem nouns or the genitive singular of o-stem nouns. For example, in crīnītus (“long-haired”), the ending -ītus may be from instrumental *-ih₁ + *-to-.[1] But this type of derivation is disputed. Other words may have been formed by analogy. It is often difficult to distinguish the adjectival ending from the fourth-conjugation participial ending, and in some cases fourth-conjugation verbs may have been derived from original adjectives by back-formation; for example, the occurrence of the finite verb form crīnītur in Statius is presumably based on reinterpretation of crīnītus as a participle.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.tus/, [ˈiːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.tus/, [ˈiːt̪us]
Suffix[edit]
-ītus (feminine -īta, neuter -ītum); first/second-declension suffix
- Used to form adjectives.
See also[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /i.tus/, [ɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /i.tus/, [it̪us]
Suffix[edit]
-itus (not comparable)
- Alternative form of -tus
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈiː.tus/, [ˈiːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈi.tus/, [ˈiːt̪us]
Suffix[edit]
-ītus
- perfect passive participle of -iō (fourth conjugation)
References[edit]
- ^ Fortson, B. W., IV. (2020). "Towards an assessment of decasuative derivation in Indo-European," Indo-European Linguistics, 8(1), 46-109. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10004