-us

Learned borrowing from Latin -us.

-us

1. (taxonomy) Used to form taxonomic names.

The Esperanto suffixes -as, -is, -os, and -us are related and appear to have been inspired by previous language projects:

This play of vowels is not an original idea of Zamenhof's: -as, -is, -os are found for the three tenses of the infinitive in Faiguet's system of 1765; -a, -i, -o without a consonant are used like Z's -as, -is, -os by Rudelle (1858); Courtonne in 1885 had -am, -im, -om in the same values, and the similarity with Esperanto is here even more perfect than in the other projects, as -um corresponds to Z's -us. —An International Language (1928)

In addition, the u of -us is likely to be related to -u.

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-us

1. Ending of the conditional in verbs.

A merger of Proto-Finnic *-us (in the first sense) and Proto-Finnic *-uc (in the second sense). Cognate with Finnish -us.

-us (genitive -use, partitive -ust)

1. Derives nouns from verbs.

   armastama "to love" → armastus "love"

   võistlema "to compete" → võistlus "competition"

   joonistama "to draw" → joonistus "a drawing"

2. Derives nouns from adjectives.

   aus "honest" → ausus "honesty"

   pikk "long" → pikkus "length"

From Proto-Finnic *-us, generalized from -s-derivatives of u-stem verbs (e.g. ihastua → ihastus, menestyä → menestys). Compare -os.

-us (front vowel harmony variant -ys, linguistic notation -Us)

2. Forms nouns from verbs, describing an action or event.

   kuvata (“to describe”) → kuvaus (“description”)

   pakata (“to pack”) → pakkaus (“package”)

   ylentää (“to promote”) → ylennys (“promotion”)

   hälyttää (“to alarm”) → hälytys (“an alarm”)

• With -ahtaa (momentane) verbs, the final -ht- may disappear entirely (through *-ahdus > *-ahus (regular loss in e.g. eastern dialects) > *-aus). This has led to -aus becoming its own pseudo-suffix. Often both variants, one with -hdus and one with -us, exist in parallel.

• -mus (used with "sallia"-, and certain "sanoa"- and "muistaa"-type verbs)

From Proto-Finnic *-us. Probably generalized from -s-derivatives of u-stem nominals (e.g. etu- → edus, palvelu → palvelus), or through the loss of a plain u-derivative from the standard language (e.g. keski- → dial. kesku- → keskus), and thus identical to etymology 1. Alternatively from Proto-Uralic *-wikse.

-us (front vowel harmony variant -ys, linguistic notation -Us)

2. Forms nouns, indicating resemblance or association.

   kanta (“base”) → kannus (“spur”)

   sormi (“finger”) → sormus (“ring”)

   vasta- (“counter-”) → vastus (“resistance, opposition”)

   kehä (“circle, ring”) → kehys (“frame”)

   syli (“bosom, lap”) → sylys (“armful”)

   typerä (“stupid”) → typerys (“fool”)

See the etymology of -uus.

-us (front vowel harmony variant -ys, linguistic notation -Us)

2. Short form of the suffix -uus, used where the stem of the root adjective ends in a vowel.

• su

-u (diminutive suffix) + -s (diminutive suffix)^[1]

• IPA^(key): [uʃ]

-us

1. (diminutive suffix) Added to a proper noun or other nouns to create a diminutive noun.

   Teréz (“Theresa”) → Terus (“Tess”)

   apa (“father”) → apus (“dad”)

   cica (“cat”) → cicus (“kitty”)

   kutya (“dog”) → kutyus (“pooch, puppy”)

2. A distinguishable foreign word ending in nouns. It cannot be considered as an independent Hungarian suffix.

   agronómus (“agronomist”)

(diminutive suffix): It creates diminutive or affectionate forms, most of the time of people’s given names, but also of common nouns, usually from ones ending in -a. Other examples: Anna → Annus, Magda → Magdus, Gyula → Gyulus. The -ka diminutive suffix can also be appended after -us to further increase the degree of endearment: apuska, cicuska, kutyuska, Annuska, Magduska.

• -is
• Appendix:Hungarian suffixes

• Attila Mártonfi: The System of the Hungarian Suffixes, Theses of PhD Dissertation, Budapest, 2006

From Proto-Finnic *-us. Cognates include Finnish -us.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-us/, [-uz̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-us/, [-uʒ̥]

-us (front vowel variant -ys)

1. Forms nouns denoting resemblance.

   ‎pääl (“above”) + ‎-us → ‎päälys (“surface”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /-us/, [-uz̠]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /-us/, [-uʒ̥]

-us (front vowel variant -ys)

1. Alternative form of -uus

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 57

From Old Latin -os, from Proto-Italic *-os, from Proto-Indo-European *-os (adjectival ending). Cognate with Ancient Greek -ος (-os), Proto-Germanic *-az, Icelandic -ur, Sanskrit -अः (-aḥ), Proto-Slavic *-ъ.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /us/, [ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /us/, [us]

-us

1. suffix of nouns in the second declension.
   1. (chiefly) nominative singular of -us
   2. (uncommon) nominative/accusative/vocative singular of -us for second-declension neuter nouns.

      vīrus; vulgus; pelagus ― rammish smell; common people, crowd; sea

2. suffix of adjectives in the first/second declension.
   1. (chiefly) nominative singular of -us

Generally from Proto-Indo-European *-os (suffix forming neuter s-stem nouns from verbs), as in genus from Proto-Italic *genos from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os (“race”) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, beget”). Not a productive derivational suffix in Latin. The plural and oblique case forms have -r- as the result of the sound change of rhotacism. Additionally, in many words, the oblique stem has the vowel -ĕ- (as in generis), which is generally taken to be the phonetically regular development of the Proto-Indo-European forms. Some words, such as as decus, decoris, instead have -ŏ- in the oblique stem; this is the result of analogical introduction of the rounded vowel from the nominative/accusative singular form.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /us/, [ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /us/, [us]

-us

1. ending of some neuter nouns in the third declension.
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative singular of -us

• Romanian: -uri (from the plural -ora, with the final vowel replaced due to analogy with feminine plural forms)^[1][2]

Not a single suffix, but an ending of various miscellaneous origins. In most words, from Old Latin -us, from Proto-Italic *-us, from Proto-Indo-European *-us as the final part of Proto-Indo-European *-tus (suffix deriving action nouns from verb roots).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /us/, [ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /us/, [us]

-us

1. nominative/vocative singular of -us for nouns in the fourth declension.

-ūs

1. nominative/vocative plural of -us for fourth-declension nouns.
2. genitive singular of -us for fourth-declension nouns.
3. accusative plural of -us for fourth-declension nouns.

• -tus

• “-us” on page 2,108/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *-ós (“adjectival ending”). Pairs such as lañkas (“bend”) : lankùs (“flexible”) find parallels in Sanskrit रुधिर (rúdhira-, “blood”) : रुधिर (rudhirá-, “red”), Ancient Greek δόλιχος (dólikhos, “a long run”) : δολιχός (dolikhós, “long”) and suggest that oxytone stress was used to mark adjectives in Proto-Indo-European. In Proto-Balto-Slavic, the raising of *o to *u must have been conditioned by stress, with the ending *-os giving Lithuanian -ùs under stress and -as otherwise.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ʊs/

-ùs m stress pattern 4

1. Adjectival suffix, applied to verbal and nominal roots to denote a disposal or tendency towards something

   ardýti (“take apart”) → ardùs (“crumbly”)

   kalbėti (“talk”) → kalbùs (“talkative”)

• -usis

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *-us, reflecting Proto-Indo-European u-stems.

• -ius

• IPA^(key): /ʊs/

-us, -ùs m

1. Masculine nominal singular ending for u-stem nouns and adjectives.

   alùs (“beer”) (< Proto-Indo-European *h₂elu-)

   sūnùs (“son”) (< Proto-Indo-European *suHnús)

(noun):

(adjective):

From an older *-uos (compare the pronominal ending -uosius). From Proto-Balto-Slavic *-ons; compare Latvian -us, Old Prussian -ans, Proto-Slavic *-y. From Proto-Indo-European *-ons (“accusative plural ending”), also reflected in Ancient Greek -ους (-ous), Latin -ōs, Sanskrit -आन् (-ān) and Gothic -𐌰𐌽𐍃 (-ans).

• -ius
• -uos, -iuos

• IPA^(key): /ʊs/

-us, -ùs

1. Used to form accusative plurals of masculine a- and u-stem nouns.
2. Used to form accusative plurals of masculine a-stem adjectives.

• -uosius

Cognate with Russian -в (-v), Bulgarian -вш (-vš). See also -usi. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• -ius

• IPA^(key): /ʊs/

-us

1. Used to form the past adverbial (padalyvis) participle

   bū́ti (“to be”) → bùvo (“was”) → bùvus (“having been”)

   slė̃pti (“hide”) → past frequentative slė̃pdavo (“hid”) → slė̃pdavus (“having hidden”)

• -ęs

From Proto-Finnic *-us. Cognates include Finnish -us and Estonian -us.

• IPA^(key): /-us/

-us (front vowel variant -ys)

1. Used to form action nouns from verbs; -ion

-us

1. Alternative form of -ous

From Proto-Brythonic *-ʉs, from Latin -ōsus.^[1] Cognate with Cornish -us.

-us

1. -ous, full of, prone to; used to form adjectives from nouns

• Welsh: -us

From Proto-Samic *-ōksë.

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-us

1. Forms nouns from verbs, indicating something that is to have the verb's action performed on it.

   ‎vuošˈšat (“to cook”) + ‎-us → ‎vuoššus (“something to be cooked”)

   ‎muitalit (“to tell”) + ‎-us → ‎muitalus (“something to be told; story”)

2. Forms nouns from verbs, indicating something that results from having the verb's action performed.

   ‎juohkit (“to divide”) + ‎-us → ‎juogus (“division, section”)

• This suffix triggers the weak grade on a preceding stressed syllable in the nominative singular and essive, and the strong grade in the other forms.

When attached to even-syllable stems, there is diphthong simplification in all forms except the nominative singular and essive.

For even-syllable stems:

For odd-syllable stems:

• -eus, -eux, -os, -ous

From Latin -ōsus.

-us

1. -ous, used for forming adjectives

• Middle French: -eux, -eulx
  • French: -eux, -ueux
    • → Danish: -øs
    • → Dutch: -eus
    • → German: -ös
    • → Norwegian: -øs
    • → Swedish: -ös
• Norman: -eux
• → Middle English: -ous, -os, -ose, -ouse, -ows, -owse, -us, -ws
  • English: -ous

From Proto-Celtic *-es-tus.

• IPA^(key): /us/

-us

1. Alternative form of -as

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-us (suffixed pronoun)

1. her (object pronoun), it (in reference to a feminine noun)
2. them

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-us

1. derogatory suffix

   ‎sługa + ‎-us → ‎sługus

2. demonym suffix

   ‎Kraków + ‎-us → ‎krakus

Usually creates colloqiual words that have pejorative or offensive meaning, such as arabus or bambus. More rarely, creates demonyms, for example krakus.

• -us in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• -us in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Middle Welsh -us, from Proto-Brythonic *-ʉs, from Latin -ōsus.^[1] Cognate with Cornish -us.

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-us

1. adjectival suffix often indicating a characteristic, propensity or abundance

   ‎blas (“taste”) + ‎-us → ‎blasus (“tasty”)

   ‎gwybod (“to know”) + ‎-us → ‎gwybodus (“knowledgeable”)

   ‎anffawd (“misfortune”) + ‎-us → ‎anffodus (“unfortunate”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “-us”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies