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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@...> wrote:
> What's the etymology of Latin suffix -e:nsis? What are the older
examples of its use?
Leumann, Lat.Gr. (1977) has a paragraph on it (§315): Its oldest
example is taken to be atriensis, derived from atrium 'central room
of a house' which is reported to be an Etruscan word. Therefore the
suffix of atriensis, of its antonym forensis, and of place-name
adjectives is taken to be Etruscan also. I do not know if this can
be checked in the actual attestation of Etruscan.
Jens