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ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES 



General 



-es- (-T7?, m., f. , -es, n.) primary, rarely secondary denominative 

 oxy tones: ^evS-rys, false; eiyev-T/s, well-born; Anr-ap-T^s, 

 persistent 



-o-, -a- (-os, m., -?;, -a, -os, f. , -ov, n. ) primary or secondary (de- 

 nominative when secondary) always oxytone, except in 

 compounds: i/aA-ds, rj, ov, bare; 77/5-0?, d, 6v, dry; /3ov-i/o/ios, 

 ov, grazed by cattle 



-aS- (-as, m. , f. ) primary oxytone: o-Trop-as, scattered; Aoy-as, 

 selected 



-iS- (-is, f. ) secondary denominative oxytone, feminities of nouns 

 or adjectives, most having become substanives: AeA<-, 

 Delphian 



Ownership or Relation 



-10- (-tos, -ta, -tov) primary denominative proparoxytone: o-rvy-tos, 

 hateful: secondary denominative; (i) the stem vowel may 

 be elided before i, as #aAao-tr-tos, marine, from #aA.a<T<ra, or 

 (2) it may be retained, as Suca-ios, just, o/xo-ios, similar, 

 whence arise new forms of the same suffix, i.e., -aios, -otos, 

 -aos, wos, etc. 

 -o-to- (-o-tos) arose from adding -to- to stems in -TI, but is now 



regularly used as a suffix; ^au/ta-crios, wonderful. 

 -tSto- (-iStos) arose from attaching -10- to stems in -18-, but has 

 become a regular suffix (especially frequent in the neuter 

 to form diminutives): $aAao-o--i'8tos, marine. 



-KO- (-/cos, 77, ov) secondary denominative oxytone: <VO-I-KOS, natu- 

 ral: whence has probably come -i/co- (-IKOS), TroAc/A-tKos, 

 warlike, Sep-fuxr-i/cds, cutaneous; whence -TLKO- (-TIKO'S), espe- 

 cially applied to nouns of agent in -T?IS. The addition of 

 -KOS to stems in -ta has given the suffixes -taxos, and -aos; 

 to stems in -v, -VKOS. 



Material 



-tvo- (-vo-) (-tvos, 77, ov) primary or secondary denominative pro- 

 paroxytone: Spu-ivos, oaken; v-A-ivos, wooden 

 The modification of the initial vowel of the suffix has pro- 



