-utus

A late rebracketing of u + -tus, a sequence found in two types of Classical Latin words:

• Adjectives derived from nouns with stems ending in u such as cornūtus, verūtus < cornū, verū + -tus

• Perfect participles of third-conjugation verbs with stems ending in u or v such as acūtus, solūtus < acu-ō, solv-ō + -tus

-ūtus (feminine -ūta, neuter -ūtum); first/second-declension suffix

1. (Late Latin) Attaches to nouns to forms adjectives with the sense of '(prominently) characterized by [noun]'.
2. (Early Medieval Latin)^? Forms the perfect participle of second– or third-conjugation verbs.

First/second-declension adjective.