FromProto-Italic*-jōs, fromProto-Indo-European*-yōs, for original**-yoss, i.e. thes-stem*-yos- with masculine nominative*-s. Theō from the nominative case was made common to all cases. Afterwards nom.sg.-iōr >-ior, byLatin sound laws. Thus paradoxically, as in ther-stems (soror,-tor,-or), in the resulting paradigm the one form with a short stem vowel is the only form whose stem was etymologically long.^[1]

• (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): [i.ɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): [i.or](stressed on the antepenult)

-ior m orf (neuter-ius);third declension

1. forms adjectives’ comparative degrees

   esculentus →esculentior

   pūtidus →pūtidior

   ulter →ulterior (not *ultrior)

• This suffix is usually appended to the oblique stem of the adjective’s absolute degree.

Third-declension comparative adjective.

• -issimus(suffix forming adjectives’ superlative degrees)

• “-ior” on page 964/3 of theOxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

-ior

1. alternative form of-iere

Inherited fromLatin-olus.

-ior m (plural-iori,feminine-ioară,feminine plural-ioare)

1. Forms diminutives of nouns.

   ‎frate(“brother”) + ‎-ior → ‎frățior

   ‎mia(“ewe”) + ‎-ior → ‎mioară

The "i" sometimes leads to the palatalization of the previous consonant and gets subsequently deleted.

• ‎obraz(“cheek”) + ‎-ior → ‎obrăjor

• -șor

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