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So what exactly determines what's a suffix and what's a prefix?

de ASCarroll, 25 d’abril de 2014

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ASCarroll (Mostra el perfil) 25 d’abril de 2014 1.08.31

Kinda wondered that for a while too. And seems like a topic less prone to controversy. Why is the meaning "ancient" prefixed when "terrible" is suffixed? Is it just because that's the way Sinjoro Z did it, or is there a deeper linguistic reason?

morfran (Mostra el perfil) 25 d’abril de 2014 1.18.44

Like most of the lexicon, Esperanto affixes are modeled on Romance ones, where there are analogous prefixes like pre-, prae-, and proto- and suffixes like -accio, -astro, etc.

nornen (Mostra el perfil) 25 d’abril de 2014 1.28.10

morfran:Like most of the lexicon, Esperanto affixes are modeled on Romance ones, where there are analogous prefixes like pre-, prae-, and proto- and suffixes like -accio, -astro, etc.
In which languages are there postfixes "-accio" and "-astro" and what do they mean?

(I just know Spanish "-astro" meaning "step-", like in padrastro or hermanastro.)
(Maybe Italian "-accio" for pejorative?)

morfran (Mostra el perfil) 25 d’abril de 2014 1.38.35

nornen:In which languages are there postfixes "-accio" and "-astro" and what do they mean?
Italian -accio is the specific suffix Esperanto gets -aĉ- from. It derives from Latin -aster, -astr- “petty”, “incomplete”, and turns up in the Romance languages (and English) in a variety of forms with a variety of pejorative (or semi-pejorative) meanings, including “step-”.

sudanglo (Mostra el perfil) 25 d’abril de 2014 10.38.39

It is not really something to be concerned with but there is a difference between some suffixes in Esperanto and others.

Most suffixes act in the same way as normal word building works, but some don't.

Stacidomo (station building) is a sort of domo, just as kombilo (a comb) is a sort of ilo.

But domego (very large building/house) is not a sort of ego, and dometo little building/cottage is not a sort of eto. They are both sorts of domo.

tommjames (Mostra el perfil) 25 d’abril de 2014 14.27.52

There's a section in PMEG on this very subject, here.

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