{"id":661,"date":"2016-07-29T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/?post_type=chapter&p=661"},"modified":"2016-11-23T19:51:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T00:51:39","slug":"%c2%a749-other-noun-forming-suffixes-ia-monium","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/chapter\/%c2%a749-other-noun-forming-suffixes-ia-monium\/","title":{"raw":"\u00a749. Other Noun-forming Suffixes (-IA, -MONIUM)","rendered":"\u00a749. Other Noun-forming Suffixes (-IA, -MONIUM)"},"content":{"raw":"

In the three previous sections, you have seen the most important ways of deriving Latin nouns from Latin adjectives. Later in the course you will meet other noun-forming suffixes that are added to verb bases. There are two morphemes which Latin uses mainly to turn concrete nouns into abstract nouns, but does occasionally attach to adjective bases. One is the suffix -IA<\/b>, joined to noun bases in milit-ia<\/b> (< miles<\/b>, milit-is<\/b>, \u201csoldier\u201d), custod-ia<\/b> (< custos, custod-is<\/b>, \u201cguard\u201d; English custody)<\/i>, and in-somn-ia <\/b>(< somnus<\/b>, \u201csleep\u201d). This morpheme is added to adjective bases in memor-ia <\/b>(< memor<\/b>, \u201cmindful\u201d) and inert-ia<\/b> (< iners, inert-is<\/b>, \u201csluggish\u201d). Another suffix that has affected English is -<\/b>MONIUM<\/b>, which Latin usually adds (by means of a connecting vowel) to nouns: English matrimony<\/i> and patrimony<\/i> come from matr-i-monium<\/b> and patr-i-monium<\/b>; testimony<\/i> from test-i-monium <\/b>(< test-is<\/b>, \u201cwitness\u201d); and acrimony<\/i> from acr-i-monium<\/b> (< acer<\/b>, acr-is<\/b>, an adjective meaning \u201csharp\u201d). Alimony<\/i> and parsimony<\/i> go back to Latin verb bases that mean \u201cnurture\u201d and \u201cscrimp,\u201d respectively. From the not-so-private life of actor Lee Marvin, English acquired the amusing BLEND[footnote] A BLEND, known also as a PORTMANTEAU word, runs two other words into a single combined form\u2014here, pal + alimony<\/em>; cf. smoke + fog = smog<\/em>. It was Lewis Carroll, a master of the art, who coined the term \u201cportmanteau\u201d in Through the Looking-Glass<\/em> (where Humpty Dumpty is explaining to Alice the strange words in \u201cJabberwocky.\u201d)[\/footnote] palimony<\/i>. Needless to say, Latin had no \u201cpalimonium.\u201d[footnote] Don\u2019t try to force pandemonium<\/em> into the -monium<\/strong> category. Its Miltonic source is a Greek compound noun that will be seen later. (And it doesn\u2019t mean \u201ca place for pandas\u201d!)[\/footnote]<\/p>","rendered":"

In the three previous sections, you have seen the most important ways of deriving Latin nouns from Latin adjectives. Later in the course you will meet other noun-forming suffixes that are added to verb bases. There are two morphemes which Latin uses mainly to turn concrete nouns into abstract nouns, but does occasionally attach to adjective bases. One is the suffix -IA<\/b>, joined to noun bases in milit-ia<\/b> (< miles<\/b>, milit-is<\/b>, \u201csoldier\u201d), custod-ia<\/b> (< custos, custod-is<\/b>, \u201cguard\u201d; English custody)<\/i>, and in-somn-ia <\/b>(< somnus<\/b>, \u201csleep\u201d). This morpheme is added to adjective bases in memor-ia <\/b>(< memor<\/b>, \u201cmindful\u201d) and inert-ia<\/b> (< iners, inert-is<\/b>, \u201csluggish\u201d). Another suffix that has affected English is –<\/b>MONIUM<\/b>, which Latin usually adds (by means of a connecting vowel) to nouns: English matrimony<\/i> and patrimony<\/i> come from matr-i-monium<\/b> and patr-i-monium<\/b>; testimony<\/i> from test-i-monium <\/b>(< test-is<\/b>, \u201cwitness\u201d); and acrimony<\/i> from acr-i-monium<\/b> (< acer<\/b>, acr-is<\/b>, an adjective meaning \u201csharp\u201d). Alimony<\/i> and parsimony<\/i> go back to Latin verb bases that mean \u201cnurture\u201d and \u201cscrimp,\u201d respectively. From the not-so-private life of actor Lee Marvin, English acquired the amusing BLEND[1]<\/sup><\/a> palimony<\/i>. Needless to say, Latin had no \u201cpalimonium.\u201d[2]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n

  1. A BLEND, known also as a PORTMANTEAU word, runs two other words into a single combined form\u2014here, pal + alimony<\/em>; cf. smoke + fog = smog<\/em>. It was Lewis Carroll, a master of the art, who coined the term \u201cportmanteau\u201d in Through the Looking-Glass<\/em> (where Humpty Dumpty is explaining to Alice the strange words in \u201cJabberwocky.\u201d) ↵<\/a><\/li>
  2. Don\u2019t try to force pandemonium<\/em> into the -monium<\/strong> category. Its Miltonic source is a Greek compound noun that will be seen later. (And it doesn\u2019t mean \u201ca place for pandas\u201d!) ↵<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/div>","protected":false},"author":20,"menu_order":5,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"Chapter 6: Turning Latin Adjectives into Nouns","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[52],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-661","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":582,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1863,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/661\/revisions\/1863"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/582"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/661\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.bccampus.ca\/greeklatinroots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}