![]() ![]() It is used for a number of words with the sense ‘producing or produced by’. The word genesis is related to this Greek word.ġ. Marks nouns, with a foundation in Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese, implying femininity.įiction Junior, child, younger person.-genic is a combining form based on Greek genes ‘born’. Of or relating to a condition of seizing, as in nympholeptic. ( anime and manga fandom) Appended to a young man's name or nickname to indicate familiarity. Combined with a numerical prefix: 3-plinerved, 5-plinerved, etc. Of leaves) Indicating that the main nerves are lateral and arise from a point distinctly above the base of the leaf. Public school slang) Used to form slang or colloquial equivalents of words. Used to form (usually derogatory) words for people who regularly have their mind focused upon a particular subject, activity, or a specified drug or other substance, or who are addicted in some way.Ī single-atom thick two-dimensional layer of atoms Used to form adjectives, meaning "pertaining to", derived from nouns, most of which end in -esis ( added to a verb or noun) Used to form diminutives. ![]() ( organic chemistry) An unsaturated hydrocarbon having at least one double bond an alkene. Used to create nouns indicating a state, similar to the suffix -hood. Used to form adjectives describing related nouns ending in -gon.Īlternative form of -cracy Used following a consonant.ĭialectal) forming adverbs, generally of condition or situationĬhanges an element or substance into an oxide. ( added to a verb) Instance of (the verbal action) used to form nouns from verbs, especially in legal terms. Marks singular nouns, with a foundation in Greek or Latin, often implying femininity, especially when contrasted with words terminating in -us. Shaped or formed as described by the first element. ( pathology) Forms the names of functional diseases or of conditions such as pyrexia or cachexia. ( added to a verb or imitative sound) Frequently used to form frequentative verbs. ( Northern England) Same as -er in Standard English. ( added to certain adverbs) More used to form the comparative. ( slang) Used to form nouns indicating expertise or mastery of specified skill or area of knowledge ( chemistry) Used to form the names of metal elements, after the style of early-named elements, as well as the isotopes of hydrogen. ( added to certain adjectives and adverbs, now especially short ones) More used to form the comparative. ( non-productive) tending to, or capable ofĪ suffix indicating a fundamental unit in some kind of structure, chiefly linguistic structure. Medicine) The agent noun derived from verb. Used to form nouns describing the the study, formation, or use of words or names ( palynology) Having pollen grains with one or more leptomata, thin edges near the pole No longer productive) Suffix used to form the plural of a small number of English nouns.įorming compound nouns describing a condition or system. ![]() ( biology) used to name types of animal having a specified form of body temperature mechanismĭenoting something having the qualities of a dinosaur ![]() Suffix used to indicate the age of something or someone, in terms of years. Suffix used in loanwords from French to form abstract nouns of quality or function. ( added to a proper noun) Suffix denoting a resident or inhabitant of (the place denoted by the proper noun) used to form a demonym. ( in adjectives) having the specified thingĪlternative form of -ize used in certain words see the usage notes. ( added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb used to form an agent noun. Variant form of -er used in words ending with an abbreviation or (sometimes) a number. ![]()
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