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-ulent

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a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, with the meaning “having in quantity, full of” that specified by the initial element: corpulent; fraudulent; opulent; purulent.

Also, -lent.

Origin:
< Latin -ulentus

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-ulent

—*suffix forming adjectives*
	abundant or full of: fraudulent

[from Latin -ulentus]

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-ulent

from L. adj. suffix -ulentus "full of."

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