Lesson 8
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We have seen that nouns can be formed form the participles of verbs, e.g. "viagear" (to travel), "viageante" (traveller). This indicates an action at the time. For more havitual or professional action we use -or or -ero added to the perfect stem.
| Word | Derivative |
|---|---|
| administrar | administrator |
| navigar | navigator |
| picter | pictor |
| molinar | molinero |
This suffix indicates an instrument too, e.g., "acumulator".
2
The suffix -ist corresponds to a follower of a system, dogma, idea or person.
social, socialist ; Deo (God), deist ; lingue, linguist.
3
Other personal suffixes are :
| Suffix | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| -ard | bad, dangerous | mentie (lie), mentiard (liar) |
| -ario | dignity, office | mission-ario, comission-ario |
| -astre | poor quality | poetastre, musicastro |
| -on | personal quality | spiar (to spy), spion (spy), old, oldon (old man) |
4
Other prefixes are :
| Prefix | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| des- | contrary | desagreabil, desbell (ugly) |
| ín- | negation | íncert, ínchast |
| mis- | false, defective | misaventura, miscalcular |
| re- | back, again | readmisser, reorganisar |
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Other suffixes are :
| Suffix | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| -ach | contemptuous | dom (house), domach (hovel) |
| -ade | series, contents | arca, arcade ; boccade (mouthful) |
| -age | collective, something made | folic (leaf), foliage, lane (wool), lanage |
| -allia | collective (disorder) | antiqui (old), antiquallia (lumber) |
| -arium | scientific collection | aquarium, vocabularium |
| -atu | dignity (executive) | consulatu |
| -ello | young of | bove (ox), bovello (calf) |
| -en | collective | decen (a ten), centen |
| -ería | place of work | potte, potteria (place) |
| -eríe | business, goods, method of acting | potterie (goods), bigott, bigotterie |
| -esse | state, quality | yun (young), yunesse (youth) |
| -ette | diminutive, instrument | domette (little house), tener (to hold), tenette (handle) |
| -ia | place, land | baron, baronia (barony) ; german, Germania |
| -id, -ore | adjective and abstract nouns from verbs | timer (to fear), timid, timore (fear) |
| -ie | abstract noun | elegant, elegantie ; modest, modestie |
| -iera | place of cultivation | carbon (coal), carboniera (coalmine) |
| -iere | utensil | lacte (milk), lactiere (milk-jug) |
| -iero | holder | candeliero (candlestick) |
| -itá | quality | regularita, acidita |
| -ité | collection (people) | homanite |
| -ori | intention | preparar, preparatori |
| -uore | instrument, utensil | lavuore (wash-basin) |