-κός

Etymology
From, from ,.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

PIE *-ko- on noun stems carried the meaning 'characteristic of, like, typical, pertaining to', and on adjectival stems it acted emphatically.

Suffix


Note: This suffix survives in inherited forms and became productive through its derivations (cf. infra) by metanalysis.