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Originally Posted by linguist
The noun you cite would more properly be "pulchritudo , -inis" (no such noun ending as "-tudino"; it's ((vowel)-tudo) but of course this in turn derives from the adjective pulcher, its basis. (As, for example, "certitude" does from "cert-ain").
There is another factor : pulcher + -tudo + *osus* (before the necessary transformations. Same suffix as in "comatose" or "lachrymose."
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Oh gawd!!!!
I feel a headache coming on.
