-edo

From translingual -idae, modified to avoid homophony with -ido.

-edo

1. (zoology) member of taxonomic family named after an animal
   • bovo (“head of cattle”); bovedoj (“bovids, the Bovidae family”)
   • cervo (“deer”); cervedoj (“cervids, the Cervidae family”)
   • homo (“human”); homedoj (“hominids, the Hominidae family”)
   • leporo (“rabbit”); leporedoj (“leporids, the Leporidae family”)
   • urso (“bear”); ursedoj (“ursids, the Ursidae family”)

• -īdō

See Proto-Indo-European *-Hō. Compare also -tūdō.

Leumann 1977 compares Greek ἀλγηδών (algēdṓn) and argues the suffix developed by rebracketing of formations in -dō built on verbs with stems ending in -ē-, such as torpēdō from torpeō^[1] (whose ending is derived from the PIE stative suffix *-éh₁yeti). Gary Miller 2006 expresses doubt about the overall etymology (including whether it is related to -ē- verbs), but suggests -ēdō, -īdō and -tūdō share a common element *-Hdon- which might go back to earlier *-(e)t-h₃onh₂-.^[2]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈeː.doː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛː.do]

-ēdō f (genitive -ēdinis); third declension

1. suffixed to the roots of adjectives and verbs, chiefly forms abstract nouns

   absūmō (“I consume”) + -ēdō → absūmēdō (“consumption”)

   dulcis (“sweet; kind”) + -ēdō → dulcēdō (“sweetness; kindness”)

   gravis (“heavy, grave”) + -ēdō → gravēdō (“cold in the head”)

   torpeō (“I am stiff, inert”) + -ēdō → torpēdō (“stiffness, lethargy; torpedo fish”)

Third-declension noun.

• Old Galician-Portuguese: -een
  • Galician: -én

• “-ēdō” on page 587/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

From Latin -ētum.

-edo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -edos)

1. forms collectives

   ‎árvore (“tree”) + ‎-edo → ‎arvoredo (“grove”)

• “-edo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Inherited from Latin -ētum.

-edo m (noun-forming suffix, plural -edos)

1. forms collective nouns, most commonly regarding plants

   Synonym: -eda

   ‎haya (“beech”) + ‎-edo → ‎hayedo (“beech wood”)

• “-edo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025