-ulent

suffix forming adjectives meaning 'abounding in, full of' (fraudulent; turbulent).
Derivatives:
-ulence suffix forming nouns.
Etymology: L -ulentus

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\(y)ələnt\ adjective suffix

Etymology: Latin -ulentus, -olentus; probably akin to Latin olēre to smell — more at odor

: that abounds in (a specified thing) : that has (a specified thing) in marked amount or degree

nidorulent

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a suffix occurring in adjectives borrowed from Latin, with the meaning "having in quantity, full of" that specified by the initial element: corpulent; fraudulent; opulent; purulent.

Also, -lent.

[ < L -ulentus]

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-ulent /-ū-lənt/

adj sfx

Denoting a copious amount, as in fraudulent, purulent

ORIGIN: L -ulentus

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suffix (forming adjectives) abounding in; full of

fraudulent | purulent | virulent. Compare with -lent

Origin:

from Latin -ulentus

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-ulent, suffix

ad. L. -ulentus employed to form adjs., usually with the force of ‘abounding in’, ‘full of’ (some thing or quality), as fraudulentus fraudulent, opulentus opulent, truculentus truculent, etc. (Variant forms of the suffix are -olentus, as in vinolentus vinolent, violentus violent, and -ilentus as in gracilentus slender, pestilentus pestilent.) A considerable number of the formations occurring in Latin have been adopted in English, and a few have been added either from mediæval or modern Latin, or by direct formation on Latin stems, as cinerulent, flatulent, herbulent, nidorulent, torpulent.