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1. -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.), ...
2. -arium, suffix View full entry
... Latin -ārium ‘thing connected with or employed in, place for,’ orig. neuter of adjs. in -ārius. Of this the regular adapted form in English is -ary...
3. -hood, suffix View full entry 1599
...Orig. a distinct n., meaning ‘person, personality, sex, condition, quality, rank’ (see had), which being freely combined with nouns, as in Old English cild-hád child-condition, mægð-hád...
4. -ical, suffix View full entry
...Sometimes forming an adjective from a noun in -ic, as music, musical, but more frequently a secondary adjective, as comic, comical, ...
5. -ism, suffix View full entry
...The following are the chief uses of the suffix:...
