-izo

• -idiō (non-standard spelling; 2nd c. CE onwards)

Borrowed from Ancient Greek -ίζω (-ízō). At first limited to borrowings from Greek but later become a productive suffix of its own. The same Greek suffix was earlier borrowed as -issō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪz.zoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈid̪.d̪͡z̪o]

-izō (present infinitive -izāre, perfect active -izāvī, supine -izātum); first conjugation

1. Used to form similative verbs from nouns and adjectives.

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

Borrowings:

• Meul, Claire. 2013. The fate of the -ID(I)- morpheme in the Central Dolomitic Ladin varieties of northern Italy: Variable conditioning of a morphological mechanism. In Cruschina, Silvio & Maiden, Martin & Smith, John Charles (eds.), The boundaries of pure morphology: Diachronic and synchronic perspectives, 68–95. Oxford University Press.

Inherited from Latin -īcius. Compare Portuguese -iço, Catalan -ís.

• IPA^(key): /ˈiθo/ [ˈi.θo] (Spain)
• IPA^(key): /ˈiso/ [ˈi.so] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -iθo (Spain)
• Rhymes: -iso (Latin America, Philippines)
• Syllabification: -i‧zo

-izo (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -iza, masculine plural -izos, feminine plural -izas)

1. forms adjectives from other adjectives, nouns, and verbs usually denoting propensity or likeness

   ‎enfermo (“sick”) + ‎-izo → ‎enfermizo (“sickly”)

   ‎rojo (“red”) + ‎-izo → ‎rojizo (“reddish”)

   ‎cobre (“copper”) + ‎-izo → ‎cobrizo (“copper (colored)”)

• “-izo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024