Talk:pulchritudinous

In regard to the Latin translation for this word: pulcher means beauty, but we are not speaking of beauty itself, but rather the state of having beauty, therefore the more accurate Latin translation would be pulchritudinosus.


 * No, pulchritudo means "beauty". It is a derived form from pulcher "beautiful".  You can get the sense, roughly, by imagining "pulchritudo" means "beauty-tude" ("pulchritude" in a more English way). "*pulchritudinosus" would mean "beauty-tude-ful", which would be redundant; presumably for this reason classical Latin words do not end in -tudin-osus.  "*pulchritudinosus" is only a calque of the English construction, not a decent translation.  —Muke Tever 23:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

pulchritūdō +‎ -ous,
Where does the -i- come from then? --Backinstadiums (talk) 12:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The genitive form. The lemma is at the nominative, so that's what we link to. Otherwise you're sending them to a "form of" entry that will send them to the lemma anyway, but with an extra click wasted. Chuck Entz (talk) 14:02, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I mentioned -i- on purpose because people may wrongly assume it's either -i- or even -ious. --Backinstadiums (talk) 14:46, 23 March 2020 (UTC)