-vus
Latin
Etymology
From the Proto-Indo-European perfect active participle suffix *-wós.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯us/, [u̯ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vus/, [vus]
Suffix
-vus
Usage notes
- Originally forming the perfect active participle, as in alvus (“entity having been nourished”), clīvus (“entity having leaned”), gnāvus (“having known”).
- The form -vus is used after vowels, l, and r, and -uus after all other other consonants, with the exception of qu. In this last case, the form -us is used.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -vus | -va | -vum | -vī | -vae | -va | |
| Genitive | -vī | -vae | -vī | -vōrum | -vārum | -vōrum | |
| Dative | -vō | -vō | -vīs | ||||
| Accusative | -vum | -vam | -vum | -vōs | -vās | -va | |
| Ablative | -vō | -vā | -vō | -vīs | |||
| Vocative | -ve | -va | -vum | -vī | -vae | -va | |