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"De Verbis Blogis et Blogīre"
"About the Words Blogis and Blogīre"

A certain thread at the Latin Forum inspired me to write a post about two proposed words: blogis, "blog," and blogīre, "to blog."

Substantive: blogis -is m. "blog"
The parisyllabic, third-declension i-stem blogis was created by adding the stem vowel i to blog (taken as the root BLOG), making the stem blogi-, and then adding the ending -s to that resultant stem. This word is declined like īgnis (with ablative singular in -e or -ī).

Verb: blogīre -ō -īvī -ītum "to blog"
The easiest way to make a denominative verb form from a parisyllabic i-stem like blogis is make it a fourth-conjugation verb. So blogis, substantive stem blogi- becomes blogīre, verbal stem blogī-. This is like īgnīre, sitīre, fīnīre, vestīre, mollīre, lēnīre from the parisyllabic i-stems īgnis, sitis, fīnis, vestis, mollis, lēnis. These words, including blogīre, are declined like audīre.

"Rules" for the Formation of Derivatives from Parisyllabic I-Stem Substantives

Various case forms of parisyllabic i-stem words and forms of denominative verbs from such words keep the final i of those i-stem words when that i appears before an unlike vowel: before a, nominative plural mari-a (mari- + -a) from mare; before e, nominative singular participle īgni-ēns (īgni- + -ēns) from īgnīre; before o, first person present īgni-ō (īgni- + -ō) from īgnis; before u, genitive plural īgni-um (īgni- + -um) from īgnis. By analogy, other derivative words keep the i: apiārius (api- + -ārius) from apis, īgniārius (īgni- + -ārius) from īgnis, bīliōsus (bīli- + -ōsus) from bīlis. However, if the suffix begins with i, the i of the stem of the i-stem word disappears: ovīlis (ov- + -īlis) from ovis (stem ovi-).

In the creation of other derivatives where the suffix begins with a vowel, the final i of the stems either undergoes vowel change before a consonant or disappears before a vowel: piscōsus (pisc- + -ōsus) from piscis (stem pisci-), clūnālis (clūnā- + -lis or clūn- + -ālis) from clūnis (stem clūni-), pisculentus (piscu- + -lentus or pisc- + -ulentus) from piscis (stem pisci-). If the i were kept, we would expect pisciōsus, clūniālis, pisciulentus or perhaps pisciolentus because of the tendency for u to replace o after i, as in vi-olentus from vīs (stem vī-), fīli-olus from fīlius (stem fīlio-).

The final vowel of the stem lengthens to ī before the consonants of certain suffixes: turrītus (turrī- + -tus) from turris (stem turri-). However, the i stays as it is before other suffixes: civicus (civi- + -cus) from civis.

"Rules" for the Formation of Derivatives from Fourth-Conjugation Verbs

Derivatives are regularly formed from fourth-conjugation verbs by either adding the stem directly to a suffix when the suffix begins with a consonant, or dropping the final vowel of the stem when the suffix begins with a vowel: sepelībilis (sepelī- + -bilis) from sepelīre, garrulus (garrī-, garr- + -ulus) from garrīre.

"Systems" of Derivations

The Romans habitually imagined that words of particular types, such as i-stems, fit within a number of "systems" of derivation.

So, a word like blogis could produce the verb blogīre and the adjective blogītus, and yet the adjective blogītus may be a perfect passive participle that answers to the verb blogīre.

The stem of blogis, blogi-, may be conceived as the part of the word to which all other derivative endings and suffixes beginning with vowels are attached. The adjectives blogiārius and blogiālis may be created from blogis, and the verb blogiāre (blogi-āre) may be created (cf. blogi-ārius, blogi-ālis, and the verb brevi-āre from brevis) from the same word, and the participle form blogiēns (blogi-ēns) may also be created even without an intervening verb blogīre.

If the substantive blogis did not actually exist, but the verb blogīre did, and that verb were felt to be a denominative verb from the nonexistent word blogis, then it would be technically possible to coin the word blogis. And so the system of derivation comes full circle.

Many new words can be coined from blogis and blogīre using the appropriate affixes. Here is a list of suggested possible derivatives. This list also cites already-existing words used as models to demonstrate the methods of word formation.

Substantives from blogis

• blogiārius -iī m. (cf. rētiārius fr. rēte): blogger
  
  
• blogiārium -iī n. (cf. aerārium fr. aes): blog service provider
  
  
• blogiculus -ī m. (cf. īgniculus fr. īgnis): little blog
  
  
• blogiō -ōnis (cf. restiō fr. restis): blogger
  
  
• blogiunculus -ī m. (cf. carbunculus fr. carbō): young blogger
  
  
• blogiuncula -ae f. (cf. audītiuncula fr. audītiō): young blogger
  
  
• blogiaster -trī m. (cf. parasītaster fr. parasītus, rētiārius fr. rēte): sorry blog
  
  
• blogaster -trī m. (cf. parasītaster fr. parasītus, clūnālis fr. clūnis): sorry blog
  
  
• blogiastellus -ī m. (cf. oleastellus fr. oleaster): little sorry blog
  
  
• blogastellus -ī m. (cf. oleastellus fr. oleaster): little sorry blog
  
  
• blogiētum -ī n. (cf. saxētum fr. saxum, canāliēnsis fr. canālis): blogging community
  
  
• blogētum -ī n. (cf. saxētum fr. saxum, īgneus fr. īgnis): blogging community

Adjectives from blogis

• blogītus -a -um (cf. turrītus fr. turris): with a blog
  
  
• blogeus -a -um (cf. īgneus fr. īgnis): from a blog
  
  
• blogīlis -e (cf. ovīlis fr. ovis): of a blog
  
  
• blogiārius -a -um (cf. apiārius fr. apis): pertaining to a blog
  
  
• blogiōsus -a -um (cf. bīliōsus fr. bīlis): full of blogs
  
  
• blogōsus -a -um (cf. piscōsus fr. piscis): full of blogs
  
  
• blogilēns -entis (cf. pestilēns fr. pestis): full of blogs
  
  
• blogilentus -a -um (cf. pestilentus fr. pestis): full of blogs
  
  
• blogulentus -a -um (cf. pisculentus fr. piscis): full of blogs
  
  
• blogiēnsis -e (cf. canāliēnsis fr. canālis): from a blog

Substantives from blogīre

• blogītus -us m. (cf. vestītus fr. vestīre): a blogging; something blogged
  
  
• blogītūra -ae f. (cf. mūnītūra fr. mūnīre): a blogging; something blogged
  
  
• blogor -ōris m. (cf. timōr fr. timēre): blogging
  
  
• blogēs -is f. (cf. sēdēs fr. sēdēre): blogging
  
  
• blogītiō -ōnis f. (cf. audītiō fr. audīre): a blogging, "blogation"
  
  
• blogītiuncula -ae f. (cf. audītiuncula fr. audītiō): a slight "blogation"
  
  
• blogīmen -inis n. (cf. mūnīmen fr. mūnīre): something used to blog, a client like Semagic
  
  
• blogītor -ōris m. (cf. mūnītor fr. mūnīre): blogger
  
  
• blogītrīx -īcis f. (cf. mūnītrīx fr. mūnīre): blogger
  
  
• blogō -ōnis m. (cf. bibō fr. bibere): blogger
  
  
• blogōna -ae f. (cf. caupōna cf. caupō): blogger
  
  
• blogītōrium -iī n. (cf. audītōrium fr. audīre): a machine that does automatic blogging
  
  
• blogītrum -ī n. (cf. arātrum fr. arāre): a machine that does automatic blogging
  
  
• comblogium -iī n. (cf. collēgium fr. legere): blogroll
  
  
• combloga -ae m. (cf. collēga fr. legere): fellow blogroller
  
  
• imaginiblogium -iī n. (cf. rīsiloquium fr. loquī): image-blogging

Adjectives from blogīre

• blogiēns -entis (cf. mūniēns fr. mūnīre): blogging
  
  
• blogītus -a -um (cf. mūnītus fr. mūnīre): (having been) blogged
  
  
• blogāx -ācis (cf. capāx fr. capere): "blogacious," tending to blog often
  
  
• blogulus -a -um (cf. garrulus fr. garrīre): blogging readily
  
  
• blogībilis -e (cf. sepelībilis fr. sepelīre): bloggable, "blogible"
  
  
• blogilis -e (cf. agilis fr. agere): bloggable, "blogile"
  
  
• blogīvus -a um (cf. fīnītīvus fr. fīnīre): tending to blog, "blogive"
  
  
• blogius -a -um (cf. eximius fr. eximere): bloggable, "blogious"
  
  
• blogītilis -e (cf. dēlētilis fr. dēlēre): bloggable, "blogitile"

Verbs from blogīre

• blogīscere -ō (cf. dormīscere fr. dormīre): to begin to blog
  
  
• blogītāre -ō -āvī -ātum (cf. dormītāre fr. dormīre): to blog often
  
  
• blogesse -ō -īvī -ītum (cf. petessere fr. petere): to blog eagerly
  
  
• blogillāre -ō -āvī -ātum (cf. cantillāre fr. cantāre): to blog a little bit
  
  
• blogīturīre -ō -īvī -ītum (cf. parturiō fr. parere): to wish to blog