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-cus
-cus
Latin
Suffix
-cus m (feminine -ca, neuter -cum); first/second declension
- suffixed to nouns, forms adjectives
This suffix survives in inherited forms and became productive through its derivations (cf. infra) by metanalysis.
Declension
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | -cus | -ca | -cum | -cī | -cae | -ca | |
| genitive | -cī | -cae | -cī | -cōrum | -cārum | -cōrum | |
| dative | -cō | -cō | -cīs | ||||
| accusative | -cum | -cam | -cum | -cōs | -cās | -ca | |
| ablative | -cō | -cā | -cō | -cīs | |||
| vocative | -ce | -ca | -cum | -cī | -cae | -ca | |
Derived terms
<a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Latin_words_suffixed_with_-cus'>Latin words suffixed with -cus</a>
References
- “-cus” on page 478/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)