-eous Definition
Used with nouns to form adjectives with the sense of resembling to or having the characteristics of the suffixed term; similar to -ous.
Used to form adjectives meaning resembling or having characteristics of the related term.
Origin of -eous
From earlier -uous, alteration of -wose, -wos, a variant of -wise, from Middle English -wise, -wis, -wys, from Old English -wīs (“-wise”). More at -wise.
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Chiefly from -ous with preceding vowel (compare -ious); compare also Latin -eus; but also by concatenation with English -te (an earlier form of -ty).
From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old French -eux, -eus (from Latin -ōsus) and from Latin -eus
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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