-iscus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Found in Late, Vulgar, and Medieval Latin, from Proto-West Germanic *-isk, from Proto-Germanic *-iskaz, from Proto-Indo-European *-iskos (suffix).
Cognate with Ancient Greek -ῐ́σκος (-ískos), which forms diminutive nouns.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈis.kus/, [ˈɪs̠kʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈis.kus/, [ˈiskus]
Suffix[edit]
-iscus (feminine -isca, neuter -iscum); first/second-declension suffix
- (Late Latin, Medieval Latin) Used to form adjectives
Declension[edit]
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -iscus | -isca | -iscum | -iscī | -iscae | -isca | |
| Genitive | -iscī | -iscae | -iscī | -iscōrum | -iscārum | -iscōrum | |
| Dative | -iscō | -iscō | -iscīs | ||||
| Accusative | -iscum | -iscam | -iscum | -iscōs | -iscās | -isca | |
| Ablative | -iscō | -iscā | -iscō | -iscīs | |||
| Vocative | -isce | -isca | -iscum | -iscī | -iscae | -isca | |
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Latin lemmas
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- Late Latin
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