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Greek -τῐκός (-tikós), adjective-forming suffix denoting: relating to, able to, suited to -tide: bound to, forming a noun from an adjective by dropping -ic and adding -tide. Greek - πεπτός (- peptós), adjective-forming suffix denoting: bound to, relating to, able to, suited to Glycopeptide Nucleotide Peptide: toco-childbirth
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.
The English language uses many Greek and Latin roots, stems, and prefixes.These roots are listed alphabetically on three pages: Greek and Latin roots from A to G; Greek and Latin roots from H to O
-ić or -ič, a family name suffix in South Slavic languages; i.c., an abbreviation for the Latin phrase in casu, meaning 'in this case' ic, an Old English pronoun; A Christogram, a series of letters that form the abbreviated name of Jesus Christ; An independent clause in the study of grammar
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns and adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional endings) or lexical information (derivational/lexical ...
Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious.
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Many Greek affixes such as anti-and -ic have become productive in English, combining with arbitrary English words: antichoice, Fascistic. Some words in English have been reanalyzed as a base plus suffix, leading to suffixes based on Greek words, but which are not suffixes in Greek (cf. libfix). Their meaning relates to the full word they were ...