释义 |
-itous compound suffix, containing the -it- of ns. in -ity, and the adj. ending -ous; corresp. to Fr. -iteux, L. -itōsus, contracted for -itātōsus, as in calamitōsus for calamitātōsus, calamitous; so felicitous, gratuitous, iniquitous, necessitous. |