-uoussuffix

Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

a compound suffix, representing Latin -uōs-us (-a, -um), Old French or Anglo-Norman -uous, -uos (French -ueux), occurring in a number of adoptions from Latin (or French), as fructuous, halituous, impetuous, †monstruous, †portentuous, sumptuous, tempestuous, virtuous; and hence by analogy employed with the sense ‘of the nature of, consisting of’ in a few English formations on Latin stems, as ambiguous (1528–), strenuous (1599–), †subsiduous (1490), torrentuous (1840–). By assimilation, Old English rihtwís (‘righteous’) became rightuous in the 15–16th centuries.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

单词	-uous
释义	-uoussuffix Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly. a compound suffix, representing Latin -uōs-us (-a, -um), Old French or Anglo-Norman -uous, -uos (French -ueux), occurring in a number of adoptions from Latin (or French), as fructuous, halituous, impetuous, †monstruous, †portentuous, sumptuous, tempestuous, virtuous; and hence by analogy employed with the sense ‘of the nature of, consisting of’ in a few English formations on Latin stems, as ambiguous (1528–), strenuous (1599–), †subsiduous (1490), torrentuous (1840–). By assimilation, Old English rihtwís (‘righteous’) became rightuous in the 15–16th centuries. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < suffix
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