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1. -ac, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives and nouns chiefly indicating relationship to or possession of a physical or mental condition....
2. -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...
3. -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...
4. -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...
5. -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...
6. -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....
7. -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...
8. -an, suffix View full entry
...Derivative....
9. -ane, suffix View full entry
...Occas. English Latin -ānus, perh. orig. French -ain; used, chiefly for sake of distinction, in words that have a parallel form in -an...
10. -ary, suffix1 View full entry 1940
...adjs. repr. (or on analogy of) Latin -ārius ‘connected with, pertaining to’; as arbitrary, contrary, elementary, honorary, mercenary, necessary...
11. -ase, suffix View full entry
...a suffix taken from the ending of diastase, and used in naming enzymes, as lactase, maltase, pectase, etc....
12. -asis, suffix View full entry
...Forming names of diseases, really nouns of state or process from verbs in -άειν(contracted -ᾶν); as from ϕθείρ louse, ϕθειρᾶν to be lousy, ...
13. -ate, suffix4 View full entry
...in Chem.: see -ate1c....
14. -dione, suffix View full entry
...A suffix used to form the names of compounds containing two carbonyl groups, as in menadione...
15. -ellum, suffix View full entry
...Forming nouns denoting small structures of a function or shape specified by the first element, as pulsellum, tractellum...
16. -ent, suffix View full entry
... French -ent, Latin -ent-em, the ending of pr. pples. of vbs. of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th conjugation, as rīdent-em, currentem,...
17. -ergic, suffix View full entry
...Forming adjectives relating to neurotransmission involving the substance specified by the first element, as adrenergic, cholinergic, monoaminergic, etc....
18. -etin, suffix View full entry
...Forming the names of aglycones, esp. those not chemically characterized when discovered and named, usually by replacing -in in the name of the glycoside from which the aglycone is obtained;...
19. -etum, suffix View full entry 1905
...Appended to names of trees or other plants, to designate a collection or plantation of various species of a single genus or group of plants, as in Latin arboretumin ...
20. -ia, suffix1 View full entry
...A termination of Latin and Greek ns. = i-, ι-, stem or connecting vowel + -a1, in Greek esp. frequent as the ending of abstract nouns from adjs....
