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Romániço Affixes

GRAMMATICAL AFFIXES
-o noun: parlo a speaking; rejo king; belo (a) beauty
-a adjective: marks what is identical with the root — parla spoken, verbal; reja kingly, royal; bela beautiful
-e adverb: parle by speech; reje royally, as a king; bele beautifully
-s plural: parlos acts of speaking; rejos kings; belos beauties
-en verb: mi parlen I speak; mi has parlen I spoke
-er verb, infinitive: parler to speak; rejeser to be king; beleser to be beautiful


PARTICIPIAL FORMATIVES
-ant- present active: constructanta building
-at- present passive: constructata being built
-int- past active: constructinta having built
-it- past passive: constructita built
-ont- future active: constructonta going to build
-ot- future passive: constructota going to be built


PREFIXES
ante- ante-, pre-: antedicer predict; anteàvuliso great grandmother
anti- contra-, against, counter: antibacterio bactericide — contre- is usually preferred to anti-
arqui- arch-, chief: arquiduco archduke
des- direct opposite: desagradábila disagreeable; desbelifer disfigure
dis- separation, dispersal: disifer dismember; disdoner distribute
ex- former: exsposiso ex-wife
mis- wrongly: miscomprenser misunderstand; misuso misuse
ne- non-, un-: nesaper be ignorant of; neposíbila impossible
par- completely, -up: paruser use up; parvader to go through to the end
para- protection against: paracado parachute; parashoco bumper
pseudo- pseudo-: pseudointelectoso pseudointellectual
retro- retro-: retroactiva retroactive; retrotirer draw back(ward)
ri- repetition: rivider review; rilecter re-read
sine- -less: sine-càpita headless; sine-arma unarmed


SUFFIXES
-açh- disparagement: hominaçhiso hag; belaçha tawdry; scriptaçher scrawl
-ad- prolonged or repeated action: disparado volley; colpado beating
-aj- external manifestation: novajo a novelty; nutrajo nourishment; retajo network; lanajos woollens; maestrajo masterpiece; pictajo painting
-an- member of the domain of: polìciano policeman; Àfricano African; Amèricana American
-and- worthiness: fidanda trustworthy; risanda ridiculous; compatanda poor; sponjianda sponge-worthy
-ar- collective, group: militaro armed force; vocabularo vocabulary
-astr- step-: matrastro stepmother; fratrastro stepbrother
-atari- -ee: confesatario confessor; invìatario sendee
-av- fraction: cuarimo quarter; duavifer halve; panavo breadcrumb
-ay- place allotted to or characterized by: golfayo golf course; dormayo dormitory; ducayo ducal palace
-az- augmentative: casulazo mansion; blavaza deep blue; amazer adore
-e- -colored: rosea pink; violea violet
-ébil- possibility: aprensébila learnable; risanifébila curable
-ec- begin to, become, get, come to be: pàlidecer turn pale; riquecer get rich; dormecer fall asleep; facecer begin to do; sedecer sit down
-ed- direct object: bibedo a drink; manjedo food; videdo a view
-ef- generation, production, secretion: florefer to bloom; sudorefer to sweat; iPodefer to manufacture iPods
-em- disposition, tendency: timema fearful; abscondema secretive; erorema fallible
-end- passive obligation: facenda that must be done; èvitenda that must be avoided
-ens- -ese: il Anglenso English; Francensa filmos French-language films
-erí- (industrial) establishment: imprimerío print shop; lacterío dairy
-esc- relating to: statesquifer to nationalize; lòjiquesca relating to logic
-ésim- ordinal: unésima first; duésima second
-et- diminutive: petreto pebble; blaveta bluish; bulieter simmer
-ez- be -ed (no agent implied): constructezer be built; clusezer close; sedezer be seated
-i- country, region, or domain under the authority of: duquio duchy; paroquio parish
-í- science, theory, study, or art of: filòlogío philology; quirurgío surgery
-içh- male: porquiçho boar; beliçho hunk; sposiçho husband
-ici- abstract quality: amiquicio friendship; blanquicio whiteness; capturiticio captivity.
-icl- tool, implement: còperticlo cover, lid; vehiclo vehicle
-id- descendant of: rejido prince; Atreido descendant of Atreus; canìculisido son of a bitch
-ier- bearer, holder: oliviero olive tree; candeliero candlestick
-if- causative: facilifer facilitate; salifer salify; mortifer put to death; caldajifer make into heat; constructifer cause to be built. Some might prefer the construction fiquer fácila, fiquer salosa, fiquer áliqui constructer álico.
-ij- use (of a tool, device): skopijer sweep; botonijo a buttoning
-is- female: porkiso sow; beliso belle; sposiso wife
-isc- -like, -ish: Romanisca romanesque; blanquisca whitish
-ism- theory, system; characteristic behavior: comunismo communism; Darwinismo Darwinism; fetiçhismo fetishism
-ist- professional; enthusiastic amateur; adherent, partisan: floristo florist; biciclisto cyclist; socialisto socialist
-iv- capability: pagiva able to pay, solvent; productiva productive; nutrivo nutritive
-iz- application: clovizer furnish with nails, stud; salizer salt; pasteurizer pasteurize
-ol- young of: rejolo princeling; canìculolo puppy; bovolo calf
-opl- multiple: duopla double
-os- having, containing: acuosa vialo a road full of water; porosa porous; joyosa joyous; lòjicosa logical
-uçh- endearing suffix: porcuçho piggy; beluçha cute; patruçho daddy
-um- no fixed meaning: columo collar; foliumer leaf through (a book, etc.)
-uy- container, receptacle: denariuyo purse; cigaruyo cigar box

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