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Old French
Etymology
From Latin -ātus (part participle ending) + -īcius (adjective-forming suffix) due to rebracketing of the endings of words such as damnātīcius as one suffix.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-eiz m (oblique and nominative feminine singular -eice)
- attaches usually but not exclusively to verbs to form adjectives or nouns
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- Malkiel, Yakov. 1968. The Old French verbal abstracts in -eiz. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 102. 1–39.