Triparic Word Formation
Appearance
Noun-forming affixes
From Verbs
Purpose | English | German | Latin | French | Esperanto | Old Tri. |
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Agent (Who does the verb?) |
-er, -tor | -er/in | -tor/-trix | -eur/-euse, -ier/e | -anto | -eur |
Patient (To whom is it done?) |
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State/condition of doing it or having it done |
-ment and others (amusement, astonishment) |
-tum, -ung, -schaft | -or (dolor, amor, timor, horror, clamor) |
-ment et al | Inconsistent; sometimes -at | |
The action itself or result of doing it |
-tion (retaliation, indignation) |
-tum, -ung, -schaft, -sal | -(t)io (deliberatio) |
-tion et al | Inconsistent; sometimes -at or -stanz | |
Variously related to the act | -(t)ium, -tura (cultura, odium, ingenium, oblivium) |
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Instrument or thing which does | -er, -tor (stapler, cutter, vibrator) |
-men(tum), -(c)ulum, etc. (flumen, nomen, vinculum, impedimentum) |
-ilo |
From Nouns
Purpose | English | German | Latin | French | Esperanto | Old Tri. |
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Act, condition, characteristic | -(t)ium, -tas, -monium, -(t)ia (auctoritas, victoria, auspicium, patrimonium) |
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Place | -arium | -arium (aerarium, tabularium) |
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Office | -ate (principate, shogunate) |
-atus (senatus, potentatus) |
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Diminutive | -ling, -let, -kin (munchkin, hamlet, stripling) |
-ulus/a, -ellus/a, -culus/a, etc. (navicula, castellum) |
-eto (dometo, knabeto) |
From Adjectives
Purpose | English | German | Latin | French | Esperanto | Old Tri. |
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Quality/Condition | -tude, -ship, -ness | -(t)ia, -tas, -tudo (tristitia, turpitudo, nobilitas) |
Adjective-forming affixes
From Verbs
Purpose | English | German | Latin | French | Esperanto | Old Tri. |
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Ongoing Condition | -bund, -cund | -bundus, -(c)undus (moribundus, fecundus) |
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State/Condition[1] | -id | -idus (frigidus, timidus, pallidus) |
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Passive Capability | -ble, -tile | -(b)ilis, -tilis (nobilis, volatilis) |
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Tendency | -acious | -ax (audax, tenax, mendax) |
- ↑ A lot of the Latin words of this type have nouns in -or: timor, pallor, etc.