学习十九大精神●信访局长谈落实
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Was the suffix -eus productive during or after the Classical period? Did this change over time?
The use of the suffix -eus to create an adjective based on a noun was very common, and it denoted a relational sense — that is, being made of the noun or being like the noun in some way (a good ...
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Has the meaning of any Latin adjectives narrowed in a way similar to English "gay" transitioning from a meaning of "happy" to "homosexual"?
The English words "gay" and "queer" are originally adjectives with a broad range of possible use contexts, but currently they are used almost exclusively in reference to certain minorities.
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When did nouns and adjectives derived from pronouns appear?
Latin has some nouns and adjectives derived from pronouns:
unicus, identitas, qualitas, neutralis…
I have the impression that such derivations are mainly later than classical, but I do not ...
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Negativus and positivus
When, if ever, did the adjectives negativus and positivus evolve into an antonym pair like the English "negative" and "positive", and how did positivus get this meaning?
Deriving negativus from the ...
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