Lines from the Codex Buranus:
O Fortuna │Oh Fortune
velut luna │Like the moon
statu variabilis…
│ changeable in state
vita detestabilis │detestable life
…rota tu volubilis │
turning wheel (changeable in terms of fate)
… semper dissolubilis │
always ‘dissoluble’ (always fading to nothing)
[i] All 3rd declension
adjectives of 2 terminations end in -is / -e and a
significant proportion of them end in the suffix: vowel [mainly -ā- or -i-]
+ bilis [m/f] / -bile [n] which is formed usually
from verbs and denotes ‘worthy of’; the Latin suffix is reflected in English
derivatives. [image #1]
[ii] The English suffix –(i /a)ble was added to words which were not of Latin origin, but the meaning of the Latin suffix from which –(i/a)ble was derived was retained. [image #2]
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