-ous

Etymology
From, from , , , from. in unstressed position.

Many English adjectives ending in -ous were taken from preexisting French or Latin adjectives that end in one of the above suffixes (e.g. corresponds directly to Old French  which in turn corresponds directly to Latin ). In addition, -ous (or the variant form ) has at times been attached to English nouns to form derived adjectives that lack precedents in French or Latin, such as from  or  from. It has also been used in some cases as a means of adapting adjectives borrowed from Latin that originally ended simply in -us, -a, -um (for example, and  are derived from Latin  and, not  or ).

Suffix

 * 1) possession of
 * 2) presence of a quality in any degree (typically abundance of)
 * 3) relation or pertinence to
 * 4)   See Inorganic nomenclature.
 * 1) relation or pertinence to
 * 2)   See Inorganic nomenclature.
 * 1) relation or pertinence to
 * 2)   See Inorganic nomenclature.
 * 1) relation or pertinence to
 * 2)   See Inorganic nomenclature.
 * 1)   See Inorganic nomenclature.
 * 1)   See Inorganic nomenclature.

Translations
Note: Translations of English words ending in -ous do not necessarily end in the suffixes listed below.


 * Arabic:
 * Aromanian: -os, -osu, -oasã
 * Asturian: -osu
 * Catalan: ,
 * Danish: -øs
 * Dutch:
 * Emilian: -ōś, -óśa
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Friulian: -ôs
 * Galician: ,
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: -आना
 * Hungarian: ////
 * Ido: -oza
 * Italian:, -osa
 * Latin:, -osa, -osum
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan: -ós
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, -oasă
 * Russian: -о́зный, -ный
 * Sardinian: -osu, -ossu
 * Sicilian: -usu, -osu
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Venetian: -oxo, -óxo
 * Welsh:


 * Galician:
 * Hungarian: ////
 * Japanese:
 * Russian: -истый
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh:

Etymology
From, , , from.