-cinor

Latin Etymology la :from canō<id:sing> From la canō canō, canere to sing; to recite; to foretell, predict, prophesy, with vowel weakening in the unstressed syllable and a change to first-conjugation inflectional endings. The line between suffixes and compounds in Latin is not always clear: some verbs ending in -cinor may be considered to be compounds, but in la latrōcinor to be a mercenary soldier, to commit highway robbery, the original meaning of la canō is so weakened that -cinor seems to be no more than a suffix.Fay, E. W. (1904) "Studies of Latin Words in -cinio-, -cinia-. II. -cinium, 'Calling,' a Partially Developed Latin Suffix." The Classical Review, 18(7), 349–351. http://www.jstor.org/stable/694609, page 350 According to De Vaan, Leumann 1977: 551 follows Ernout in considering the class of verbs ending in -cinor to have arisen by analogical extension from la vāticinor to prophesy, foretell, which is assumed to be a denominal verb derived from a compound noun la vāticinium.canō 88 Compare also the attested nouns la latrōcinium, la lenōcinium, la ratiōcinium, where according to Chase (1900) "the unexplained -cinium seems to have sunk to the force of a suffix".Chase, George D. (1900) "The Form of Nominal Compounds in Latin," Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Vol. 11, pp. 61-72, page 70 Alternatively, Chase (1901) and Cocchia (1917) argue that forms in -ōcin- may derive from original -ōnic- (from stems in -ōn- + la -icus) by metathesis, aided by analogy with la vāticinor.Chase, George D. (1901) "Latin Verbs in -cinari," (abstract), Transactions and proceedings of the American Philological Association Vol. 32, pages lxxiii-lxxivCocchia, Enrico (1917) "Nuova Serie di Note Glottologiche, Parte Seconda, Il ritmo del discorso studiato in rapporto col fenomeno della distrazione omerica, della legge di posizione e della evoluzione dei suoni" in Rendiconti della Accademia di archeologia, lettere e belle arti, Volume 5; pp 151-216. page 214 [64 of 66] Forms in -ōnic- are the source of some Romance derivatives such as it ladroneccio, but those forms are usually considered to be the result of, rather than the input to, a process of metathesis. Pronunciation -cinor Suffix 1+ -cinor suffix used to form verbs from nounsWhite, John Tahourdin (1858) Latin Suffixes, page 134 Conjugation 1+ -cinor Derived terms la References