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Not sure if this at all speaks to my Italian heritage, but I have found words that carry this suffix behind them as being particularly pleasing to my ears. Bonus for those words that merit an "l" at the end, as well. intaglio - carving into a stone face that leaves the remaining, surrounding stone untouched punctilio - a point of exactness in conduct, ceremony, etc. seraglio - an inclosure, a place of separation; a harem curculio - one a large group of beetles of various kinds imbroglio - an intricate, complicated plot; an embarassing state of things, a serious misunderstanding moustachio - pertaining to the possession of a hairy upper lip (a sophisticated mustachioed bourgeoisie) rosolio - ? Any more? | ||
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The Italian language is especially rich in words ending with a vowel, which no doubt contributes towards its musicality. Richard English | |||
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There's brio ~ vivacity Intaglio is rather more boring, though. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. | |||
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Words which end in -io in Italian usually descend from words in Latin in -ius/-ium. Oftentimes, a word ending in -(V)glio contain a Latin -(V)lius which are usually diminutive suffixes. The quality of sounding pleasant is, I think, mostly subjective. Many of the northern Italian dialects have a substantially different phonology, prosody, and phonotactics from standard (Tuscan) Italian, yet they sound pleasing to my ear. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. | |||
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