[1615–25; ‹ L strāmineus of straw, equiv. to strāmin- (s. of strāmen straw; akin to stratum) + -eus-eous]This word is first recorded in the period 1615–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: berth, deposit, foliation, swamp, trigger-eous is an adjectival suffix with the meanings “composed of,” “resembling, having thenature of,” occurring in loanwords from Latin (igneous; ligneous; vitreous); it is also found as a semantically neutral suffix on adjectives of diverse origin(beauteous; courteous; hideous; homogeneous; plenteous; righteous)