[1570–80; ‹ LL carneus, equiv. to L carn- (s. of carō) flesh + -eus-eous]This word is first recorded in the period 1570–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: balloon, bracket, duster, pigeonhole, repeater-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)