Morpheme
Fatu
Type
bound base
Denotation
foolish, silly, simple, stupid, insipid, tasteless, awkward, clumsy, unwieldy
Etymology
Latin fatuus
Evidence
fatui, fatuitous, fatuitousness, fatuity, fatuous, fatuously, fatuousness, fatuus, infatuate, infatuated, infatuatedly, infatuates, infatuating, infatuation, infatuative, infatuator, unfatuous, uninfatuated
Alternative Base Analysis
<Fatuit> denoting “fatuity”
alternative modern base analysis without suffixal construction -itous
from fatuity, from Middle French fatuité, from Latin fatuitātem, from fatuitās, from fatuus + -tās
fatuitous, fatuitousness
