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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
-pants. (suffix)
Origins: Latin adjectival suffix
-pantatus, -a, -um
. First seen used in term
intelligentiatatus
, modern translation, "smarty-pants". (Often Roman poets, most notably Martial, would drop the "-pan" when using the suffix for metric purposes.)
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