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▪ I. -itious1
compound suffix of adjs., f. L. -ici-us or -īci-us + -ous. These L. endings, from the confusion of c and t in late and med.L. MSS., were formerly written -itius, whence the current Eng. spelling for the etymologically correct -icious. The L. adjs. were of two classes: a. those in -icius from nouns, as ciner-icius of the nature of ashes, gentīl-icius of the clansmen, tribūn-icius of a tribune; b. those in -īcius from pa. pples., as advent-īcius characterized by having come in from without, adscript-īcius of the class of the adscripti, comment-īcius of an invented sort, conduct-īcius of a hired sort, fact-īcius of a made sort, fict-īcius of a feigned sort, supposit-īcius of a substituted nature. These are anglicized with the suffix -ous, as in ascript-itious, comment-itious, conduct-itious, fact-itious, fict-itious, supposit-itious; and the formation is freely extended when required, as in abstractitious, adscititious, excrementitious, etc.
▪ II. -itious2
a combination of the suffix -ous, repr. L. -ōsus, with derivatives containing iti-, or īti-, of various kinds, chiefly ns. in -itiōn-em; e.g. ambition, ambitious, L ambitiōsus, superstition, superstitious, L. superstitiōsus; so nutritious, seditious, etc.: see -ious, -ous. |