-ious
See also: IOUs
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
Taken from Latin adjectives ending in -(i)ōsus (ambitious), -(i)us (obvious) and -ius (nefarious), as well as their Romance descendants. By surface analysis, -i- + -ous.
Suffix
-ious
- Alternative form of -ous.
Derived terms
Categories:
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃ed- (smell)
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from Old Latin
- English terms derived from Archaic Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms derived from Proto-Italic
- English terms interfixed with -i-
- English terms suffixed with -ous
- English lemmas
- English suffixes
- English adjective-forming suffixes