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🔹 Denominal Nouns Ending in -ío

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The suffix -ío forms mainly masculine nouns with a collective or intensive meaning. It can indicate:

  • a large group or accumulation: gente → gentío;
  • a collective of people: mujer → mujerío, monje → monjío;
  • an intensification of a quality such as power or authority: poder → poderío.

The RAE explicitly defines -ío as forming nouns 'with collective or intensive value' and gives mujerío, gentío, monjío and poderío as examples.

This is a small paradigm, so it is better not to manufacture additional examples. Ordered approximately by contemporary frequency:

#Spanish NounNoun in EnglishBase NounBase Noun in English
1poderíopower; might; great strengthpoderpower
2gentíocrowd; multitude of peoplegentepeople
3señoríolordship; dominion; domain; dignityseñorlord; master
4mujeríolarge group/crowd of womenmujerwoman
5monjíogroup/community of monksmonjemonk
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