Re: Suffixes about one that does a (specified) thing

Posted by Anonymous on 2006/4/6 22:51:01

Tim,

Braggadocio is Spenser's coinage, 1590, from brag, with augmentative ending by analogy to the It. words then in vogue.

Would you explain this sentence quoted from online etymology dictionary, especially the meaning of "It."?


Thanks.