"-vorus" meaning in Latin

See -vorus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Suffix

IPA: [wɔ.rʊs] [Classical-Latin], [vo.rus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From vorō (“to devour, to eat greedily”) + -us (forming adjectives). Etymology templates: {{ety|la|:af|vorō<t:to devour, to eat greedily>|-us<id:deverbal adjective><pos:forming adjectives>|text=+}} From vorō (“to devour, to eat greedily”) + -us (forming adjectives). Head templates: {{la-suffix-adj|-vorus}} -vorus (feminine -vora, neuter -vorum); first/second-declension suffix Inflection templates: {{la-adecl|-vorus}} Forms: -vora [feminine], -vorum [neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], -vorus [masculine, nominative, singular], -vora [feminine, nominative, singular], -vorum [neuter, nominative, singular], -vorī [masculine, nominative, plural], -vorae [feminine, nominative, plural], -vora [neuter, nominative, plural], -vorī [genitive, masculine, singular], -vorae [feminine, genitive, singular], -vorī [genitive, neuter, singular], -vorōrum [genitive, masculine, plural], -vorārum [feminine, genitive, plural], -vorōrum [genitive, neuter, plural], -vorō [dative, masculine, singular], -vorae [dative, feminine, singular], -vorō [dative, neuter, singular], -vorīs [dative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], -vorum [accusative, masculine, singular], -voram [accusative, feminine, singular], -vorum [accusative, neuter, singular], -vorōs [accusative, masculine, plural], -vorās [accusative, feminine, plural], -vora [accusative, neuter, plural], -vorō [ablative, masculine, singular], -vorā [ablative, feminine, singular], -vorō [ablative, neuter, singular], -vorīs [ablative, feminine, masculine, neuter, plural], -vore [masculine, singular, vocative], -vora [feminine, singular, vocative], -vorum [neuter, singular, vocative], -vorī [masculine, plural, vocative], -vorae [feminine, plural, vocative], -vora [neuter, plural, vocative]
  1. (forms adjectives) -eating, -devouring Tags: declension-1, declension-2, morpheme, suffix

Inflected forms

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      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "-vore"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "-vorous"
    },
    {
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "-vore"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "-voro"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "word": "-vor"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "-vuru"
    }
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        "2": ":af",
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        "4": "-us<id:deverbal adjective><pos:forming adjectives>",
        "text": "+"
      },
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      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From vorō (“to devour, to eat greedily”) + -us (forming adjectives).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-adecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorus",
      "source": "declension",
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        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
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    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
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        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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    },
    {
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    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-voram",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vore",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "-vorus"
      },
      "expansion": "-vorus (feminine -vora, neuter -vorum); first/second-declension suffix",
      "name": "la-suffix-adj"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-vorus"
      },
      "name": "la-adecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "suffix",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries referencing missing etymons",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with etymology texts",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -us (deverbal adjective)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using catfix",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "carō (stem carn-) + -vorus → carnivorus"
        },
        {
          "text": "omnis + -vorus → omnivorus"
        },
        {
          "text": "rāna + -vorus → rānivorus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "-eating, -devouring"
      ],
      "id": "en--vorus-la-suffix-RFnzjov1",
      "links": [
        [
          "eating",
          "eating#English"
        ],
        [
          "devouring",
          "devouring#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(forms adjectives) -eating, -devouring"
      ],
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        "forms adjectives"
      ],
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        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "morpheme",
        "suffix"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ipa": "[wɔ.rʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vo.rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
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}
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  "descendants": [
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      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "-vore"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "-vorous"
    },
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      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "word": "-vore"
    },
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      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "word": "-voro"
    },
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "word": "-vor"
    },
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      "lang_code": "scn",
      "word": "-vuru"
    }
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        "2": ":af",
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        "text": "+"
      },
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      "name": "ety"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From vorō (“to devour, to eat greedily”) + -us (forming adjectives).",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "-vora",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
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      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-voram",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "-vorō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "masculine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "neuter",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "feminine",
        "masculine",
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vore",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vorae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-vora",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
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    {
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        "1": "-vorus"
      },
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      "name": "la-suffix-adj"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "-vorus"
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  "pos": "suffix",
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        "Latin 2-syllable words",
        "Latin adjective-forming suffixes",
        "Latin entries referencing missing etymons",
        "Latin entries with etymology texts",
        "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
        "Latin first and second declension suffixes",
        "Latin lemmas",
        "Latin suffixes",
        "Latin terms suffixed with -us (deverbal adjective)",
        "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages using catfix",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        {
          "text": "carō (stem carn-) + -vorus → carnivorus"
        },
        {
          "text": "omnis + -vorus → omnivorus"
        },
        {
          "text": "rāna + -vorus → rānivorus"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "-eating, -devouring"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eating",
          "eating#English"
        ],
        [
          "devouring",
          "devouring#English"
        ]
      ],
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        "(forms adjectives) -eating, -devouring"
      ],
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        "forms adjectives"
      ],
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        "declension-1",
        "declension-2",
        "morpheme",
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[wɔ.rʊs]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[vo.rus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "-vorus"
}

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