Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A suffix forming Latin adjectives and nouns thence derived. It is frequent in New Latin generic and specific names, as in
Acanthinus , etc.
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Examples
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They will operate a bakery below, for dogs, perhaps bringing goodies home for their two shiba inus.
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Folks, invest inus, trust us, we will make you rich without ever having to do any work.
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While Mackie's inus condition approach can rule that smoking causes lung cancer even if there are smokers who do not develop lung cancer, it does require that there be some conjunction of conditions, including smoking, upon which lung cancer invariably follows.
Probabilistic Causation Hitchcock, Christopher 2002
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Mackie introduced the notion of an inus condition: an inus condition for some effect is an insufficient but non-redundant part of an unnecessary but sufficient condition.
Probabilistic Causation Hitchcock, Christopher 2002
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They were joined by Sever-inus Albinus who sat apart from the group, staring to the south-east.
Last Sword Of Power Gemmell, David 1988
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The suffixes - eus and - inus are appended to names of substances or materials; as, -- aureus, _of gold_; ferreus, _of iron_; fāginus, _of beech_.
New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett
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Slide 2: Thete pe m rature in Harbin areofte e s n nough to m 40°C inus and re ain ove a half ye unde thefre zing point.
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For it seems to me perfectly obvious, and, is readily confirmed, that English adjectival - ine simply represents Latin - inus, and perhaps occasionally French - in.
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FoA tabulam reguin Igalliconim chronologicacn Uber fequi - inus, fiilens praeliminaria, utvocat, hi -
Bibliotheca historica. A.I.G. Meuselio ita digesta ut pæne novum opus videri possit 1793
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Si a Christi lachrymis ad ejus sudorem sanguirteum proceda - inus, nonne luce clarior splendescet amor benevolentiae animae Chri - st! erga Patrem, et homines?
Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792
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