Category talk:English terms suffixed with -ulent

RFD discussion: December 2020–September 2022
See Tea room/2020/December. This is not a suffix; all the examples are taken intact from Latin words in -ulentus, and in almost all cases there is no English word X for X + -ulent to make sense as a superficial analysis. (The entry -ulentus lists -ulent as a descendant and so would also need to be updated.) - -sche (discuss) 23:07, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
 * See -ulent at Affixes: The building blocks of English, Michael Quinton. I agree that most English terms ending in ulent are derived directly from Latin words ending in ulentus and that "equivalent to X + -ulent" is not right if X does not exist in English. I took two entries from this category by removing such "equivalent to" language. But the remaining item in this category: puberulent (listed in Century 1911) does not an obvious Latin direct antecedent ending in ulentus. I have no idea whether other English terms exist that arguably have -ulent as a suffix. DCDuring (talk) 22:46, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Why was "fraudulent" removed? "Fraud" exists as a stand-alone word in English, and ordinary English speakers will be more familiar with the word's relationship to English fraud than its relationship to French fraudulent and Latin fraudulentus.--Urszag (talk) 00:44, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * It really depends on whether -ulent is actually an English morpheme. If the only English terms ening in ulent correspond semantically to Latin terms ending in ulentus, then ulent cannot really be said to be an English morpheme. As it stands we don't even have attestation for the one word with a Wiktionary entry that does not have a corresponding Latin etymon listed in Lewis and Sullivan's dictionary of Classical Latin: puberulent. For all we know there might be a puberulentus attested in Medieval or other later Latin. DCDuring (talk) 05:34, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * The Latin term would be puberulens, which does, indeed, have a few hits in botanical Latin texts. I'm not really sure why puberulus isn't used instead, since there doesn't seem to be a verb that the participle could be derived from. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:47, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * And in case you're wondering why isn't involved: puberulent is semantically a diminutive. Something that's puberulent has shorter and finer hairs than something that's pubescent. The  suffix is the opposite of a diminutive- "abounding in, full of". Besides which, there's no English word puber . The Latin word is, which alternates with "puber-" because of phenomena that didn't make it past the end of Latin. Chuck Entz (talk) 07:35, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
 * But, if -ulent is not an English morpheme, then could not have created cromulent, whether or not he got the "crom" part from "Cromwell". Shāntián Tàiláng (talk) 21:33, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Individual invention doesn't need shared meaning of component morphemes. A dictionary entry for a morpheme does. I doubt that anyone inferred the meaning of cromulent from its morphology. "Ulent" may have suggested that cromulent was an adjective, but "ent" might have as well. DCDuring (talk) 22:57, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete, not an English suffix. Ultimateria (talk) 17:00, 13 September 2021 (UTC)

Apparently emptied by. This, that and the other (talk) 05:37, 25 September 2022 (UTC)