-ferouscomb. form

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

Forms: In actual use always -iferous.

Etymology: < classical Latin -fer producing ( < ferre to bear) + -ous suffix. In Latin the suffix -fer was always preceded by ĭ, either belonging to the stem as in pestifer, substituted for the stem-vowel as in sensifer, or inserted as a connecting vowel as in aerifer; so that the suffix practically appears in Latin as -ifer, and in English as -iferous.

Forming adjectives with the sense ‘bearing’. In English it appeared first in words taken from Latin, either directly or through French adaptations in -fère, as in auriferous, bacciferous, biferous, cruciferous, frugiferous, glandiferous, lactiferous, metalliferous, odoriferous, pomiferous, rosiferous, soporiferous, thuriferous, vociferous. On the analogy thus established -iferous became a living English suffix, capable of combining with any Latin stem, and forms an unlimited number of derivatives, esp. in Natural History, as acidiferous, argentiferous, carboniferous, cocciferous, fossiliferous, lucriferous, sanguiferous, umbelliferous.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	-ferous
释义	-ferouscomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Forms: In actual use always -iferous. Etymology: < classical Latin -fer producing ( < ferre to bear) + -ous suffix. In Latin the suffix -fer was always preceded by ĭ, either belonging to the stem as in pestifer, substituted for the stem-vowel as in sensifer, or inserted as a connecting vowel as in aerifer; so that the suffix practically appears in Latin as -ifer, and in English as -iferous. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘bearing’. In English it appeared first in words taken from Latin, either directly or through French adaptations in -fère, as in auriferous, bacciferous, biferous, cruciferous, frugiferous, glandiferous, lactiferous, metalliferous, odoriferous, pomiferous, rosiferous, soporiferous, thuriferous, vociferous. On the analogy thus established -iferous became a living English suffix, capable of combining with any Latin stem, and forms an unlimited number of derivatives, esp. in Natural History, as acidiferous, argentiferous, carboniferous, cocciferous, fossiliferous, lucriferous, sanguiferous, umbelliferous. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < comb. form
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