-acious

-acious

a suffix used in English adaptations of Latin adjectives ending in -ax: audacious; mendacious; tenacious.
Compare -ous.
[< Latin -āci-, s. of -āx deverbal adj. suffix (usually with the sense “tending to perform, characterized by” the action of the verb) + -ous]
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