English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
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A noun suffix with a diminutive force; as in baronet, pocket,
facet, floweret, latchet.
A suffix signifying bearing, producing, yielding; as,
auriferous, yielding gold; chyliferous, producing chyle.
-fish
(pl. )
of Crayfish
-fishes
(pl. )
of Crayfish
-ful
(a.)
A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful,
harmful, woeful.
A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify,
amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.
A suffix meaning produced, generated; as, exogen.
A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing,
generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.
A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous;
endogenous.
A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous;
dentigerous.
-gies
(pl. )
of Lethargy
-gies
(pl. )
of Martyrology
-goes
(pl. )
of Archipelago
-gos
(pl. )
of Archipelago
A suffix indicating something drawn or written, a drawing,
writing; -- as, monogram, telegram, chronogram.
A suffix denoting the art of writing or describing; also,
the writing or description itself; a treatise; as, calligraphy,
biography, geography.
A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave,
margrave. See Margrave.
-head
(suffix.)
A variant of -hood.
A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character,
totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes
it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.
-ias
(pl. )
of Pathopoela