-turio

== Latin == === Alternative forms === (possibly) -urriō === Etymology === Uncertain. Latin vowel reduction probably caused any short vowel in a word-internal open syllable to evolve regularly to -e- before -r- (compare -fer from Proto-Italic *-foros, socerī from Proto-Italic *swekurī), which suggests that this suffix had a comparatively recent analogical origin. (An alternative opinion holds that -u- was regularly retained before -r-, but Parker 1986 argues that examples like augurium can be explained by analogy, e.g. to the nominative augur.) Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *-tew- (as in the supine) + *-rós. Possibly compare -tūrus and/or -tūra. According to De Melo 2007, Risch 1954 postulates the construction goes back to an unattested *saturiō (“to be full”) from satur, used as the basis for an analogical ēsuriō, originally with the sense "to be hungry" but then evolving to "to want to eat". Possibly from -tor- (the original oblique stem of the agent suffix -tor, from Proto-Italic *-tōr) +‎ -iō, from Proto-Indo-European *-yéti (denominative suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tʊ.ri.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tu.ri.o] === Suffix === -turiō (present infinitive -turīre, perfect active -turīvī, supine -turītum); fourth conjugation Forms desiderative verbs from other verbs. ‎pariō (“to bring forth”) + ‎-turio → ‎parturiō (“to be in labour”) ‎nubō (“to veil, marry”) + ‎-turio → ‎nupturiō (“to wish to wed”) Sulla → *sullō (“I do as Sulla did”) → sullaturiō (“pessimistically jocular: I wish to imitate Sulla”) ==== Usage notes ==== Usually formed on the same stem as the supine/perfect participle; but adulēscenturiō is an exception. The -turio aspectual compounds are sometimes referred to as desiderative; the Late Latin era grammarians Priscianus and Diomedes use the phrase meditative, or verba meditativa, for this construction. ==== Conjugation ==== === See also === === References ===