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1. -adic, suffix View full entry 1878
...Chem. With preceding symbol, designating an atom with a valency represented by the symbol. Cf. monadic3a, dyadicb. Obs.rare....
2. -arian, suffix View full entry 1838
...Used to form adjs. or corresponding ns. The earliest formations of a general character are disciplinarian (n.) of the late 16th century, agrarian, antiquarian (n.), ...
3. -dom, suffix View full entry 1880
...Abstract suffix of state, which has grown out of an independent n., orig. putting, setting, position, statute, Old High German tuom, position, condition, dignity, in Old English dóm,...
4. -ein | -eine, suffix View full entry 1871
...variants of -in and -ine used as suffixes in the names of certain chemical compounds containing anhydrides, esp. phthalic anhydride. In bases the ending is usually -eine...
5. -er, suffix6 View full entry 1899
...Introduced from Rugby School into Oxford University slang, orig. at University College, in Michaelmas Term, 1875; used to make jocular formations on ns., by clipping or curtailing them and adding...
6. -ers, suffix View full entry 1892
...Suffixed to the first part of a proper or common noun, to form a familiar or humorous nickname, as Divvers, patters; = -er. Also forming adjectives,...
7. -ese, suffix View full entry 1898
...Forming adjs., Old French -eis (modern French -ois, -ais):—Common Romanic -ese (Italian -ese, Provençal, Spanish -es, Portuguese ...
8. -ette, suffix View full entry 1849
...Forming diminutive ns., represents Old French -ette, the fem. form corresponding to the masc. -et: see -et. In early English use the French -et...
9. -ic, suffix View full entry 1807
...In adjs., immediately representing French -ique, Latin -ic-us, of Latin origin, as in cīvic-us, classic-us, public-us, domestic-us, ...
10. -ility, suffix View full entry a1865
...compound suffix (French -ilité, Latin -ilitās), consisting of -ity added to adjs. in -il (civility), -ile (servility), or...
11. -in, suffix1 View full entry 1881
...A modification of the chemical suffix -ine, introduced into systematic nomenclature by Hofmann 1860, used systematically in Watts' Dict. Chem. in 1866, and subsequently...
12. -ion, suffix3 View full entry 1856
...Forming the names of ions of elements (as chlorion, hydrion, sodion) and those of groups (as nitrion, sulphion)....
13. -ish, suffix1 View full entry 1815
...In Old English and the cognate langs., chiefly forming gentile adjs. from national names: e.g. British (Old English Brittisc), English (Old English Englisc, †Sc....
14. -ist, suffix View full entry 1842
...Forming a simple agent noun derived from a Greek verb in -ίζειν, and often accompanying an English verb in -ize. Such are agonist, antagonist,...
15. -ite, suffix1 View full entry 1818
...Forming names of persons. (Often also used adjectively.)...
16. -ization, suffix View full entry 1864
...suffix forming nouns of action from vbs. in -ize, q.v....
17. -less, suffix View full entry 1840
...Forming adjs. The Old English léas, like its equivalents in the other Germanic langs. (see lease, loose), was used in the sense ‘devoid (of)’, ‘free (from)’,...
18. -ling, suffix1 View full entry 1800
...In Old English, -ling added to ns. forms ns. with the general sense ‘a person or thing belonging to or concerned with (what is denoted by the primary n.), as...
19. -ness, suffix View full entry 1804
...Forming abstract nouns from adjectives, participles, adjectival phrases, and (more rarely) nouns, pronouns, verbs, and adverbs....
20. -ole, suffix2 View full entry 1852
...Unsystematically forming the names of compounds (as anisole, phenetole, safrole) which were regarded as being derived from carboxylic acids in the same way as ‘benzole’ (benzene)...
