-ietysuffix

Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French -ieté; Latin -ietāt-, -ietās.

Etymology: < (i) French -ieté or its etymon (ii) classical Latin -ietāt-, -ietās < -i- (usually part of the classical Latin stem) + -etāt- , -etās , the form taken by -itāt- , -itās -ity suffix after -i-.A large number of borrowings and adaptations of words from French and Latin from the 14th cent. onwards end in -iety , e.g. piety n., contrariety n., propriety n., sobriety n. Formations are found from the 17th cent., as cadaveriety n., Scotiety n., omniety at omneity n. Forms.

Forming abstract nouns (often ad hoc formations) with the sense ‘the quality, state, or condition of being what is indicated by the first element’, as cadaveriety n., luxuriety n., quotiety n., etc. Cf. -ity suffix, -eity suffix.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2020).

单词	-iety
释义	-ietysuffix Primary stress is attracted to the first syllable of this suffix and vowels may be reduced accordingly. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French -ieté; Latin -ietāt-, -ietās. Etymology: < (i) French -ieté or its etymon (ii) classical Latin -ietāt-, -ietās < -i- (usually part of the classical Latin stem) + -etāt- , -etās , the form taken by -itāt- , -itās -ity suffix after -i-.A large number of borrowings and adaptations of words from French and Latin from the 14th cent. onwards end in -iety , e.g. piety n., contrariety n., propriety n., sobriety n. Formations are found from the 17th cent., as cadaveriety n., Scotiety n., omniety at omneity n. Forms. Forming abstract nouns (often ad hoc formations) with the sense ‘the quality, state, or condition of being what is indicated by the first element’, as cadaveriety n., luxuriety n., quotiety n., etc. Cf. -ity suffix, -eity suffix. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < suffix
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