-alitysuffix

Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. opticality n.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: -al suffix¹, -ity suffix.

Etymology: < -al suffix¹ + -ity suffix, after Middle French -alité (in e.g. libéralité) and its etymon classical Latin -ālitāt-, -ālitās (in e.g. liberālitās liberality n.). Compare -alty suffix.Attested earliest in the 14th cent. in borrowings from French and Latin (e.g. principality n., morality n., liberality n.). Nouns formed within English by adding the suffix -ity suffix to adjectives in -al suffix¹ are found from the 15th cent. (e.g. pontificality n., virginality n.). English formations without a corresponding earlier adjective in -al suffix¹ are relatively rare; they are occasionally found in the 16th cent. (e.g. poorality n.) and are apparently most common in the 17th cent.

Forming nouns corresponding to adjectives formed with -al suffix¹.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	-ality
释义	-alitysuffix Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. opticality n. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item, and partly modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: -al suffix¹, -ity suffix. Etymology: < -al suffix¹ + -ity suffix, after Middle French -alité (in e.g. libéralité) and its etymon classical Latin -ālitāt-, -ālitās (in e.g. liberālitās liberality n.). Compare -alty suffix.Attested earliest in the 14th cent. in borrowings from French and Latin (e.g. principality n., morality n., liberality n.). Nouns formed within English by adding the suffix -ity suffix to adjectives in -al suffix¹ are found from the 15th cent. (e.g. pontificality n., virginality n.). English formations without a corresponding earlier adjective in -al suffix¹ are relatively rare; they are occasionally found in the 16th cent. (e.g. poorality n.) and are apparently most common in the 17th cent. Forming nouns corresponding to adjectives formed with -al suffix¹. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < suffix
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