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Just for fun, I looked up all the -ax Latin roots of the -acious words I could think of. Mendacious and veracious are antonynms, I wonder what the antonym of others (capacious/loquacious/pugnacious/sagacious) would be? (They never slipped into English) And what the difference between tenacious and pertinacious?
audacious audax to dare
boracious borax to clean
capacious capax to take
edacious edax to eat
efficacious efficax to effect
loquacious loquax to talk
mendacious mendax to lie
perspicacious perspicax to look through
pertinacious pertinax to hold
pugnacious pugnax to fight
rapacious rapax to seize
sagacious sagax to perceive
salacious salax to leap
tenacious tenax to hold fast
veracious verax to be truthful
vivacious vivax to live
voracious vorax to swallow
audacious audax to dare
boracious borax to clean
capacious capax to take
edacious edax to eat
efficacious efficax to effect
loquacious loquax to talk
mendacious mendax to lie
perspicacious perspicax to look through
pertinacious pertinax to hold
pugnacious pugnax to fight
rapacious rapax to seize
sagacious sagax to perceive
salacious salax to leap
tenacious tenax to hold fast
veracious verax to be truthful
vivacious vivax to live
voracious vorax to swallow
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[nq:1]I looked up all the -ax Latin roots of the -acious words I could think of. . audacious audax to dare(rest of list snipped)[/nq] Almost!
- [nq:1]I looked up all the -ax Latin roots of the -acious words I could think of.
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- audacious audax to dare(rest of list snipped)[/nq] Almost!
- Like the other listed items, is a verbal adjective, expressing the action of the verb as a quality or a tendency.
- It results from adding the suffix to a verb-stem.
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[nq:1]I looked up all the -ax Latin roots of the -acious words I could think of. . . . audacious audax to dare(rest of list snipped)[/nq]
Almost! Like the other listed items, is a verbal adjective, expressing the action of the verb as a quality or a tendency. It results from adding the suffix to a verb-stem. This "denotes a faulty or agressive tendency" inherent in the verb (source: Allen &
Almost! Like the other listed items, is a verbal adjective, expressing the action of the verb as a quality or a tendency. It results from adding the suffix to a verb-stem. This "denotes a faulty or agressive tendency" inherent in the verb (source: Allen &
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[nq:1]Just for fun, I looked up all the -ax Latin roots of the -acious words I could think of. Mendacious ... never slipped into English) And what the difference between tenacious and pertinacious? audacious audax to dare boracious borax to clean[/nq]
You forgot 'bodacious', from 'bodax'.
john
You forgot 'bodacious', from 'bodax'.
john
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[nq:2]boracious borax to clean[/nq]
[nq:1]You forgot 'bodacious', from 'bodax'.[/nq]
'gracious' from 'grax'
Adrian
[nq:1]You forgot 'bodacious', from 'bodax'.[/nq]
'gracious' from 'grax'
Adrian
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[nq:1]Just for fun, I looked up all the -ax Latin roots of the -acious words I could think of. Mendacious ... to leap tenacious tenax to hold fast veracious verax to be truthful vivacious vivax to live voracious vorax to swallow[/nq]
A couple more, "fugacious" and "sequacious" (etymologies from The Century Dictionary ( www.century-dictionary.com ) follow):
"fugacious (
A couple more, "fugacious" and "sequacious" (etymologies from The Century Dictionary ( www.century-dictionary.com ) follow):
"fugacious (
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[nq:2]You forgot 'bodacious', from 'bodax'.[/nq]
[nq:1]'gracious' from 'grax'[/nq]
From "hellax," "hellacious."
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
[nq:1]'gracious' from 'grax'[/nq]
From "hellax," "hellacious."
Raymond S. Wise
Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com
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Raymond added:
[nq:1]A couple more, "fugacious" and "sequacious"[/nq]
True! and anybody serious about this should ignore the noncewords and check out .
In origin, this was the stem-vowel + , and had siblings formed on other stem-vowels, one of which, , has survived in English examples ending as :
'savage' >
'fierce' >
'premature' >
[nq:1]A couple more, "fugacious" and "sequacious"[/nq]
True! and anybody serious about this should ignore the noncewords and check out .
In origin, this was the stem-vowel + , and had siblings formed on other stem-vowels, one of which, , has survived in English examples ending as :
'savage' >
'fierce' >
'premature' >
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[nq:1]From "hellax," "hellacious."[/nq]
loracious, from "to speak for the trees"
loracious, from "to speak for the trees"
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[nq:1]True! and anybody serious about this should ignore the noncewords[/nq]
Nonce words? Surely you mean the hapax legomena ... hapacious!
Nonce words? Surely you mean the hapax legomena ... hapacious!
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[nq:1]Nonce words? Surely you mean the hapax legomena ... hapacious![/nq]
Good one! Or should I say bonacious? For those not seeing the plural of for the first time, it might even be optimacious!
Good one! Or should I say bonacious? For those not seeing the plural of for the first time, it might even be optimacious!
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[nq:2]Nonce words? Surely you mean the hapax legomena ... hapacious![/nq]
[nq:1]Good one! Or should I say bonacious? For those not seeing the plural of for the first time, it might even be optimacious![/nq]
I'm getting the big picture now. It's omnimacious.
john
[nq:1]Good one! Or should I say bonacious? For those not seeing the plural of for the first time, it might even be optimacious![/nq]
I'm getting the big picture now. It's omnimacious.
john
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