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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 |
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| -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 |
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| 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 |
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| -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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