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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
-ious/ɪəs/

▶suffix (forming adjectives) characterized by; full of: cautious.

– origin from Fr. -ieux, from L. -iosus.

'-ious' also found in these Oxford entries:

atrabilious - atrocious - audacious - capacious - censorious - contumacious - edacious - efficacious - ferocious - fugacious - loquacious - lubricious - mendacious - mordacious - precocious - pugnacious - rapacious - sagacious - salacious - sequacious - tenacious - veracious - vivacious - voracious

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