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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *-iðos, from Proto-Indo-European *-dʰh₁-os, a thematized formation from *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”), originally attached to i-stems.
Pronunciation
Suffix
-idus (feminine -ida, neuter -idum); first/second-declension suffix
- (suffix forming adjectives) tending to
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Weiss, Michael (2010) Language and Ritual in Sabellic Italy: The Ritual Complex of the Third and the Fourth Tabulae Iguvinae (Brill's Studies in Indo-Europe), Brill, →ISBN, page 195