ADJECTIVELE LATINESTI ÎN -BUNDUS
Adjectivele latinesti in -bundus

Summary/Abstract: The phonetic, morphological, semantic and stylistic characteristic features of the -bundus derivations have been addressed in various studies. The most recent research on Latin literature as a whole shows that, despite the abundance of - bundus forms (totaling 150), their frequency is poor (only 11 of them commonly appear in the writings of different authors). In the Romance languages the number of the surviving derivations is negligible. In Romanian, three words have supposedly preserved the etymology of -bundus formations. The -bundus derivations belong to the lexico-grammatical class of the adjectives. With a few exceptions they start from verbal roots. Generally speaking these roots express certain human attitudes and behaviour to which these derivations add a negative or deprecating connotation. Their heavy phonetic aspect, length, complex semantics and the competition with the present participle have lead to their nearly complete disappearance from the Latin languages.

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