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1. -ably, suffix View full entry
...Forming adverbs in the sense ‘in a manner that has the capacity for or capability of being subjected to or (in some compounds) of performing (the action denoted or implied by the...
2. -acal, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives, sometimes corresponding to nouns in -ac....
3. -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....
4. -aholic, suffix View full entry 1954
...Forming nouns (often humorous nonce-words) denoting a person who appears to be addicted to the thing, activity, etc., expressed by the first element, as computerholic, newsaholic, spendaholic...
5. -al, suffix2 View full entry
...Forming the names of compounds which are aldehydes, as ethanal, furfural, geranial, methanal, retinal (now so used in the systematic nomenclature of...
6. -ality, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns corresponding to adjectives formed with -al....
7. -ally, suffix View full entry
...Forming adverbs, esp. from adjectives ending in -ic. Cf. -ly....
8. -ant, suffix2 View full entry
...For -and, an assimilation of the northern English to the French form of the pres. pple., as in allwealdant, -ent. More commonly the converse took place,...
9. -ar, suffix3 View full entry
...Casual variant of -er, -or, suffix of agent, and -er suffix of comparative. Very common in north. dial., as syngar singer, forebear...
10. -ar, suffix4 View full entry
...Forming nouns denoting categories of astronomical objects characterized by the attribute specified by the first element, as spinar, magnetar...
11. -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.), ...
12. -ase, suffix View full entry
...a suffix taken from the ending of diastase, and used in naming enzymes, as lactase, maltase, pectase, etc....
13. -at, suffix View full entry
...The original form of -ate, surviving in a number of words, as commissariat (1), concordat, diplomat, format, quadrat, secretariat...
14. -ated, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives corresponding to verbs in -ate....
15. -atory, suffix1 View full entry
...Forming nouns from verbs and verb-stems, with the sense ‘a thing relating to ——’, as amusatory, perfumatory...
16. -atory, suffix2 View full entry
...Forming adjectives from verbs and verb-stems, with the sense ‘relating to or characterized by ——’, as organizatory, performatory, etc....
17. -cade, suffix View full entry 1936
...Taken by a false division of cavalcade and used in various Combs., as aquacadeaqua-, motorcade, etc., in the sense ‘a procession, a show’....
18. -dione, suffix View full entry
...A suffix used to form the names of compounds containing two carbonyl groups, as in menadione...
19. -ean, suffix View full entry
...Variant of -an, after Latin -aeus, -eus, orig. representing -e- (in names ending in -(a)ea, -es, -eus) +...
20. -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...
