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Look up -er in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In English, the -er suffix can signify: an agent noun, e.g., "singer". a degree of comparison, e.g., "louder". Oxford "-er", a colloquial and sometimes facetious suffix prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875. Categories: Disambiguation pages. English suffixes.
This is a list of roots, suffixes, and prefixes used in medical terminology, their meanings, and their etymologies. Most of them are combining forms in Neo-Latin and hence international scientific vocabulary .
The suffixes-er (the "comparative") and -est (the "superlative") are of Germanic origin and are cognate with the Latin suffixes -ior and -issimus and Ancient Greek-ῑ́ων : -īōn and -ῐστος : -istos. They are typically added to shorter words, words of Anglo-Saxon origin, and borrowed words fully assimilated into English vocabulary.
Er, alternate spelling for Yer (Ъ / ъ), the hard-sign letter of the Cyrillic alphabet; Suffix -er -er, a suffix added to adjectives or adverbs to form a comparative (e.g., fast to faster)-er, a suffix added to a noun to indicate resident of, as in New Yorker-er, a suffix added to a verb to make it an agent noun (e.g., cut to cutter)
The difference relates only to root words; -er rather than -re is universal as a suffix for agentive (reader, user, winner) and comparative (louder, nicer) forms. One outcome is the British distinction of meter for a measuring instrument from metre for the unit of length.
The Oxford " -er ", or often " -ers ", is a colloquial and sometimes facetious suffix prevalent at Oxford University from about 1875, which is thought to have been borrowed from the slang of Rugby School. The term was defined by the lexicographer Eric Partridge in his Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (several editions 1937–61).
The most common diminutive suffixes are -ie, -ock, -ockie (double diminutive) or the Caithness –ag (the latter from Scottish Gaelic, and perhaps reinforcing the other two before it). -ie is by far the most common suffix used. Others are -le or -er for frequentative or diminutive emphasis.
For a comprehensive and longer list of English suffixes, see Wiktionary's list of English suffixes. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.