-utus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A late rebracketing of u + -tus, a sequence found in two types of Classical Latin words:
- Perfect participles of third-conjugation verbs with stems ending in u or v such as acūtus, solūtus < acu-ō, solv-ō + -tus
Suffix
[edit]-ūtus (feminine -ūta, neuter -ūtum); first/second-declension suffix
- (Late Latin) Attaches to nouns to forms adjectives with the sense of '(prominently) characterized by [noun]'.
- (Early Medieval Latin)? Forms the perfect participle of second– or third-conjugation verbs.
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -ūtus | -ūta | -ūtum | -ūtī | -ūtae | -ūta | |
| genitive | -ūtī | -ūtae | -ūtī | -ūtōrum | -ūtārum | -ūtōrum | |
| dative | -ūtō | -ūtae | -ūtō | -ūtīs | |||
| accusative | -ūtum | -ūtam | -ūtum | -ūtōs | -ūtās | -ūta | |
| ablative | -ūtō | -ūtā | -ūtō | -ūtīs | |||
| vocative | -ūte | -ūta | -ūtum | -ūtī | -ūtae | -ūta | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: -udu
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance: