Re: NATLANG: Latin prefixes with er/ra
| From: | Muke Tever <hotblack@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, September 19, 2004, 13:10 |
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On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 03:12:53 -0400, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
> There are a few that I can think of (knowing no Latin):
>
> super-/supra-
> ulter-/ultra-
> infer-/infra-
> inter-/intra-
>
> Is there some kind of pattern, other than that the first of each pair can
> prefix "-ior" in English? Or, indeed, is that itself a pattern that I'm
> too dense to work out? It's not[*] equitive vs comparative, it's not
> comparative vs superlative, it's not location vs direction, it's not
> proximal vs distal, and it's not any of a half dozen other things that
> have passed through my brain.
I see two patterns here:
"Super" is the basic preposition, also used as an adverb,and the one most used as a
prefix in Latin.
"Supra" is a derived adverb; also used as a preposition. Same seems to be the case
with "inter"/"intra"
"ulter" is an adjective, and "ultra" is its adverb and preposition, doesn't seem to be
(much?) used as a Latin prefix. Same with "infer"/"infra".
*Muke!
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