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1. -a, suffix1 View full entry
...Forming the scientific names of genera (or subgenera) of living organisms, as hosta, Maiasaura, Murraya...
2. -a, suffix2 View full entry
...Forming the plural of nouns with singulars ending in -um or -on derived from Latin and Greek neuter nouns....
3. -able, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives denoting the capacity for or capability of being subjected to or (in some compounds) performing the action denoted or implied by the first element of the compound....
4. -ac, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives and nouns chiefly indicating relationship to or possession of a physical or mental condition....
5. -acea, suffix View full entry
...Forming names of major groups of animals, typically (at least originally) having the taxonomic rank of class or order, as Cetacea, Crustacea, Testacea. These are treated...
6. -acean, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘belonging or relating to a taxonomic group whose name ends in -acea or -aceae’, and corresponding nouns, as cetacean, crustacean...
7. -aceous, suffix View full entry
...Chiefly Biol. and Med. Forming adjectives in general use (chiefly scientific) with the sense ‘of the nature of, relating to’, as carbonaceous1, membranaceous1...
8. -acious, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives meaning ‘given to, inclined to’, ‘having as a capacity’, ‘having much of’ (the thing denoted by the first element)....
9. -acity, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns of quality or state corresponding to adjectives ending -acious....
10. -acy, suffix View full entry
...(Not productive in English.) Occurring nouns of quality, as contumacy, efficacy...
11. -ad, suffix1 View full entry
...Forming collective numerals, as monad, myriad, pentad; also (with reference to festivals or games occurring at a regular interval) Olympiad, Pythiad...
12. -ad, suffix2 View full entry
...Forming adverbs and adjectives with the sense of ‘towards’ (the part or region denoted by the main element of the word), as dextrad, dorsad, laterad, ...
13. -ade, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns denoting an action or activity (esp. a protracted one), and freq. by extension a body concerned with this, or in some cases denoting the result of an activity or having...
14. -ado, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns (mostly of rare occurrence), chiefly in formations similar to those of -ade....
15. -ae, suffix View full entry
...Forming the plural of nouns with singulars ending in -a or -e derived from Latin and Greek masculine and feminine nouns....
16. -aemia | -emia, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns denoting abnormal conditions of the blood, as anaemia, acidaemia...
17. -age, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns denoting something belonging or functionally related to what is denoted by the first element (and sometimes denoting the whole of a functional apparatus collectively), as leafage, luggage...
18. -aire, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns with the sense ‘a person characterized by that which is denoted by the first element’....
19. -al, suffix1 View full entry
...Forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or relating to that which is denoted by the first element’, e.g. abysmal, global, meditational, mucosal, optimal...
20. -alty, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns denoting a rank or office, as mayoralty, sheriffalty, shrievalty, etc....
