-gerouscomb. form

Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. ovigerous adj.

Forms: In actual use always -igerous -igerous comb. form.

Etymology: < Latin -ger bearing ( < root of gerere to bear) + -ous suffix. In Latin the suffix -ger was always preceded by -i- , either belonging to the stem, as in nāviger , substituted for the stem-vowel as in armiger , or inserted as a connecting vowel as in flōriger ; so that the suffix practically appears in Latin as -iger , and in English as -igerous comb. form.

Forming adjectives with the sense ‘having’ or ‘bearing’. Cf. -igerous comb. form.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	-gerous
释义	-gerouscomb. form Primary stress is attracted to the syllable immediately preceding this combining form and vowels may be reduced accordingly; see e.g. ovigerous adj. Forms: In actual use always -igerous -igerous comb. form. Etymology: < Latin -ger bearing ( < root of gerere to bear) + -ous suffix. In Latin the suffix -ger was always preceded by -i- , either belonging to the stem, as in nāviger , substituted for the stem-vowel as in armiger , or inserted as a connecting vowel as in flōriger ; so that the suffix practically appears in Latin as -iger , and in English as -igerous comb. form. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘having’ or ‘bearing’. Cf. -igerous comb. form. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < comb. form
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