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What is the origin and meaning of the suffix ous?

What is the origin and meaning of the suffix ous?
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What is the origin and meaning of the suffix ous?

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It is Latin and means "full of."

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a suffix forming adjectives that have the general sense “possessing, full of” a given quality (covetous; glorious; nervous; wondrous); -ous and its variant -ious have often been used to Anglicize Latin adjectives with terminations that cannot be directly adapted into English (atrocious; contiguous; garrulous; obvious; ...
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