-ès

• -és (Valencia)

Inherited from Latin -ēnsis (compare Occitan -és, Portuguese -ês, French -ais, Spanish -és, Italian -ese).

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-ès (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -esa, masculine plural -esos, feminine plural -eses)

1. -ese; forms an adjective with the meaning of “pertinent thereto”

-ès m (noun-forming suffix, plural -esos, feminine -esa, feminine plural -eses)

1. -ese; forms a noun with the meaning of “an inhabitant thereof”

-ès m (noun-forming suffix, uncountable)

1. -ese; forms a proper noun with the meaning of “the language used by the inhabitants thereof”

• Unlike English, where the capitalization of the proper noun is retained when a suffix is added, in Catalan, when this suffix is used with a place name, the capitalization is dropped, even when forming a language name that is itself a proper noun. Hence Irlanda (“Ireland”) + -ès yields irlandès not *Irlandès.

From -istis, the second person plural ending for the present perfect indicative ending.

-ès

1. Used to form the second person plural preterite indicative of second-conjugation verbs

• This form fell out of use, being largely replaced by the analogical ending -éreu.

• -es, -s

From Middle English -es, from Old English -as, nominative-accusative plural ending of masculine a-stem (i.e. strong) declension nouns, from Proto-Germanic *-ōs, *‑ōz, from Proto-Indo-European *-es, *-oes (plural ending). Cognate with English -s (plural noun ending).

• IPA^(key): /-s/

-ès

1. Used to form the regular plural of nouns.