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Footnote 1: [(return)]
I regard this statement as inaccurate. The -ous in these words does not come from the nominative ending -us, but is the ordinary -ous from L. -osus (through Fr.). It was added to many Latin adjective stems, because the need of a distinctly adjectival ending was felt. Similarly in early French -eux was appended to adjectives when they were felt to require a termination, as in pieux from pi-us. Compare the English capacious, veracious, hilarious, where -ous is added to other stems than those in o. Other suffixes of Latin origin are used in the same way: e.g. -al in aerial, ethereal.—H.B.
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But pedantry would not suggest this. The New Testament has Σολομων, and the Latin Christian poets have the o short. True, the Vatican Septuagint has Σαλομων, but there the vowel of the first syllable is a.—H.B.