-ous

用名词做形容词的构词元素, 意思是“有, 充满, 有关系, 做, 倾向”, 来自古法语 -ous, -eux, 来自拉丁语 -osus (比较 -ose (1) ). 在化学中, “具有比用 -ic 表示的形式更低的价态”.

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word-forming element used to make adjectives from nouns, with the meaning "full of, abounding in, having qualities of," from Latin -osus (see -ous).

acephalous (adj.)

"headless," 1731, from French acéphale + -ous or directly from Late Latin acephalus, from Greek akephalos. See a- (3) "not" + cephalo- "head." Principally in botany and zoology, but also "without a leader" (1751). The Acephali "fabulous men with no heads" is from c. 1600, from Late Latin plural of acephalus, from Greek akephalos; also in Church history in reference to sects that refused to have priests or bishops (1620s). Related: Acephalian (1580s); acephalic (1650s).