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ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES 



General 



-C5- (-7/?, m., f. , -es, n. ) primary, rarely secondary denominalive 

 oxytones: i/'evS-r;?, false; evyev-rj^, well-born; knr-ap-T]';, 

 persistent 

 -0-, -a- (-OS, m. , -7/, -a, -OS, f. , -ov, n. ) primary or secondary (de- 

 nominative when secondary) always oxytone, except in 

 compounds: i/^iX-os, ■>?, 6v, bare; $r)p-6i, d, 6v, dry; fSov-vofjiO's, 

 ov, grazed by cattle 



-a8- (-as, m., f . ) primary oxytone: o-Tro/a-as, scattered; Aoy-as, 

 selected 



-t8- (-ts, f. ) secondary denominative oxytone, feminines of nouns 

 or adjecti\'es, most having become substanives: AeA<^-ts, 

 Delphian 



Oii'uership or Relation 



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

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

 be elided before t, as ^aAacro--tos, marine, from OdXaaa-a, or 

 (2) it may be retained, as Stxa-tos, just, o/xo-tos, similar, 

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

 -etos, wos, etc. 

 -mo- (-o-tos) arose from adding -10- to stems in -tl, but is now 



regularly used as a suffix; Oavfid-aio?, wonderful. 

 -iSto- (-tSios) arose from attaching -10- to stems in -18-, but has 

 become a regular suffix (especially frequent in the neuter 

 to form diminutives): ^aXao-(7-i8ios, marine. 



-KG- (-KOS, 7;, ov) secondary denominative oxytone: </)vcri-Kds, natu- 

 ral: whence has probably come -lko- (-ikos), TroAe/x-tKos, 

 warlike, 8ep-/AaT-tKds, cutaneous; whence -tiko- (-tikos), espe- 

 cially applied to nouns of agent in -riys. The addition of 

 -Kos to stems in -la has given the suffixes -wkos, and -okos; 

 to stems in -v, -v/cds. 



Material 



-ivo- (-V0-) (-1V0S, r], ov) primary or secondary denominative pro- 

 paroxytone: 8/3U-IVOS, oaken; ^u-A-ivos, wooden 

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



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