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-ez¹
- /ez/
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French -ais, Italian -ese, Greek -έζος (-ézos), from Latin -ensis.
suffix -eză · -ezi · -eze · -ez
- Forms nouns and adjectives of nationality -ish, -an
- Examples englez, olandez, francez, etc.
-ez²
- /ez/
Where it comes from
Inherited from Late Latin -izō.
Used as an infix in Romanian verb conjugations (similarly to how Spanish and Portuguese use the unrelated -ecer from Latin -escere, from -escō (as in parecer, padecer, merecer, etc). The suffix does not appear in the infinitive form of the verb in Romanian. However, the infinitive form of the Romanian suffix can also be found fossilized as part of the infinitive of a few verbs, such as boteza, râncheza, undeza.
The same Vulgar Latin ending resulted in Italian -eggiare, Spanish and Portuguese -ear, Catalan and Occitan -ejar, and French -oyer. The Aromanian equivalent is -edz or -edzu.
Compare also the Romanian suffix later borrowed ultimately from the same source (through French), -iza.
suffix
- used with a stem to form the first-person singular present of some -a (first conjugation) verbs. lucra → lucrez
Talk about this word "-ez." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ro/-ez. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. -ez. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-ez "-ez." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ro/-ez.Cite this
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