Etymotonia (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 Excerpt: ...bibosus, Bonosus, cerebrosus, damnosus, dumosus, exosus, formosus, fungosus, generosus, herbosus, jocosus, lanosus, Mallosus, Mendosa, Pinnosa, rugosa anus, verbosus senex, vinosum doliutn, &c, without any exception: Antiptosis, apotheosis, catatyposis, diplosis, ecpyrosis, homoaosis, metamorphosis, metempsychosis, orthosis, phimosis, prognosis, pyrosis, &c.; excepting only the small number of compounds mentioned below. 4. ODES. iElodes, elodes, balodes, carcinodes, glycerodes, hsematodes, (Herodes), hydrodes, nebrodes, (Orodes, ) Phricodes, pyrgodes, pyrodes certainly, and why not Pyrodes? Typhodes, xylodes, &c., without any real This Pyrodes, the son of Cilix, has his name pronounced the other way by very respectable, but, I think, not sufficient, authority. exception. The other words referred to amongst the exceptions below, though important, are of different formation. 5. GOGUS, Goge, &c. Anagoge (ana-go-ge), apagoge, emenagoga, hyragogus, isagoge, hippagogus, mystagogus, odontagogumferramentum, psedagogus, panchymagoga pharmaca, phlegmagogus, synagoga, &c. There is no exception. 6. DORUS, DORA, DORUM. Agathodorus, antidoron or antidorum, Apollodorus, Athenodorus, Calliodorus, Cassiodorus, Cleodora, Heliodorus, Pandora, Polydorus, rridorum, Xenodorus; and all similar words with which the reader is likely to meet. But as it is possible to form other words in Dor-, not from our present Swpov, the exceptions below may be consulted. EXCEPTIONS. Although Sodsma is the only substantive excepted from the General rule, yet the reader may be re Notwithstanding its similarity in form, Sodoma differs entirely in etymological formation, from the other words in Oma. minded thut the feminines of all adjectives in -mus end in sma: as, auricsma....