-utus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Rebracketing of -tus. Found in Classical Latin, as a surface-level ending rather than suffix of its own, in:

Found as an independent suffix, no longer constrained to the above environments, after Classical times. Compare -ātus and -ītus.

Suffix

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-ūtus (feminine -ūta, neuter -ūtum); first/second-declension suffix

  1. (Late Latin) Attaches to nouns to forms adjectives with the sense of '(prominently) characterized by [noun]'.
  2. (Early Medieval Latin)? Forms the perfect participle of second– or third-conjugation verbs.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative -ūtus -ūta -ūtum -ūtī -ūtae -ūta
Genitive -ūtī -ūtae -ūtī -ūtōrum -ūtārum -ūtōrum
Dative -ūtō -ūtō -ūtīs
Accusative -ūtum -ūtam -ūtum -ūtōs -ūtās -ūta
Ablative -ūtō -ūtā -ūtō -ūtīs
Vocative -ūte -ūta -ūtum -ūtī -ūtae -ūta

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: -ut, -utu
    • Romanian: -ut
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
  • North Italian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance: