-us

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-us is a Latin suffix for male names. In the Nordic countries, it is also used to create male forms of female names and to Latinise name, which are not originally Latin.

Variant forms include:

  • -os (Greek)
  • -o (younger Roman)
  • -use (Greenlandic)
  • -usi (Greenlandic)

See also -anus, -ius and -inus

For female forms see -a

List of Names with the suffix -us